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Today's good news comes to us from the state of Yap, part of the Federated States of Micronesia and the Pikelot Atoll, which is a tiny little slip of land about 30 acres that is 415 miles southeast of Guam where three sailors were rescued in a very cinematic fashion.

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Three fishermen apparently all related to each other, but as of this moment, unidentified, went out on a fishing trip from a neighboring island, ran into some trouble with their boat in rough seas and ended up stranded on this tiny but absolutely beautiful deserted island.

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For more than a week, the trio survived on coconuts and they luckily discovered a well that had been dug on the island after a concerted effort from a number of different organizations in the area, a coast guard plane noticed that someone had spelled out the word help in palm fronds on a beach and that is how these three sailors were discovered.

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It took about a day for them to get picked up off the island.

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But when they were picked up, they were pretty much perfectly healthy, just a little bit dehydrated for all the ways.

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This could have ended up a week on a deserted island, munching on coconuts and drinking water from an abandoned well, is a pretty good outcome.

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When I was researching this story, it turns out something very similar happened about four years ago.

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Three missing sailors used the same technique and spelled out S OS on the beach and they too were rescued.

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So this little atoll is either a perfect place to head out for a fishing trip or it has some sort of mystical draw that keeps stranding sailors either way.

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I think it is very good news that both of these trios of sailors were rescued after using that classic movie trope of spelling out help or S os out on the beach.

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Something to keep in mind if you plan on doing any Micronesian island hopping this summer for vacation.

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