Two fishermen have survived for almost a month in shark-infested waters off Australia, by floating in a large icebox after their boat sank.
The men, both from Burma and in their 20s, were on a 12-metre Thai wooden fishing boat with 18 others when it sank in stormy seas off Australia's north coast two days before Christmas.
"The information they provided to us was that they witnessed other crew members in the water, none of whom had any flotation device, so we've done an assessment and we don't believe anybody would be able to survive 25 days actually in the water..."
I'm guess I'm just getting old and cynical, because I keep wondering if they beat the other survivors off with sticks... or ate them...
I suppose the real horror of this story is that there was no beer in the icebox.
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