Rescuers found three fishermen who spent 10 days on a desert island in the White Sea. This Monday, September 4, reports the General Directorate of EMERCOM of Russia in the Arkhangelsk region. Three residents of the village of Maloshuyka of the Onega district went fishing in the White Sea on August 24. They planned to reach the islands of Hedostrov and Kondostrov in Onega Bay, but on the first day of the trip they got into a storm. When their boat began to fall apart and recruit water, the fishermen had to land on the nearest uninhabited island Saddle. "Mobile phones during the storm got soaked and disreputable, and there's no sense in them - there's no cellular communication on the island. Therefore, the island's prisoners prepared for a long and serious struggle for survival, "the Emergency Situations Ministry explained, explaining that the fishermen's houses were not expected until August 27, and the movement of ships between uninhabited islands in this area is extremely inactive. With men, there was a supply of food, which would be enough for five days, but they decided to save most of the provisions for a possible passage by sea. On the island, fishermen collected berries and fished. To survive, they had to catch and eat a few gulls. In addition, men who have kept dry matches and lighters, bred in different parts of the island signal bonfires, hoping that the smoke will draw attention to the passing court. September 3 went to the search for missing rescuers noticed the signal and were able to pick up fishermen from the island. "Rescuers came just in time, a little more - and the fishermen would go on a risky journey by sea on a raft.

When the stock of food began to end, men began to make rafts from logs, so that under the motor (and this is the only surviving equipment) to set off on an unsafe path to the house, "the Ministry of Emergency Situations. In late July, rescuers found a girl, lost in the taiga of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, who wandered through the forest for almost seven days. Together with her mother and older sisters, she went to the forest for berries, but along the way she fell behind and got lost. After that, her mother went to the police.

Original article: Fishermen feeding on seagulls survived on a desert island in the White Sea.