Three Teenage Boys Were Found Alive 50 Days After Setting Sail In the South Pacific
NBC ID: ARI5ANMDC0 | Media Type: Aired Show | Air Date(s): 11/26/2010 | Event Date(s): 11/26/2010Transcript
Event Date(s): 11/26/2010 | Event Location(s): New York City, New York, United States | Description: GFX: Header "Teens Rescued At Sea." GFX: Map of South Pacific Ocean, highlighting the Tokelau Islands, where three teenage boys set sail on 2010-10-05 and where they found 50-days later on 2010-11-25. 07:06:25 STILLS Photo of the three teenage boys on the boat in the water. Photo of the teenage boys, Samu Perez, Filo Filo, and Edward Nasau (all PH). GFX: Supers "On the Phone: Tai Fredricsen, Frist Mate." GFX: Insert still of first mate of the boat that rescued the boys, Tai Fredricsen. STILL Photo of Fredricsen speaking on a radio. EXT DAY MS: Soldiers lead a teenage boy off of a boat. MS: Soldiers (carrying an IV bag) lead the boy into an ambulance. Shot pans revealing the two other boys being led off the boat towards the ambulance. MS: Medics tend to a boy who is lying on a stretcher in the ambulance. MS: Medics help a boy sit on a stretcher in the ambulance. STILLS Photo of the three boys on the boat in the water. Photos of the boys being helped off of the boat. Photo of the three boys. Photo of the three boys and a man. STILL Photo of the three boys, Fredricsen and a man. EXT DAY MS: A woman embraces one of the boys. STILL Photo of the three boys. VO: Tai Fredricsen says, "As we got closer, we could see that it was a small speedboat and that it had three individuals inside it. Once I was in calling distance, we did--I did ask them if they needed help. The boy named Samuel replied, `Quite frankly, yes.' And in the same sentence he said, `We have been adrift for two months.' Once hearing that, I immediately got my crew active into launching a rescue boat. It was just amazing, like, to see them in that state as they came on the boat. They were--as you can imagine, you know, at 50 days at sea, seeing their physical being was very heartbreaking and it was just incredible how they were still living. They had only had a few coconuts for the first couple of days of the ordeal, and they more or less just sustained themselves on this fresh rainwater they'd captured every night. And they did manage to catch a bird, a seabird, about two weeks before we did rescue them, which probably did give them enough nutrition to carry them for those next couple weeks. They are just skin and bones. Their skin was falling off their bones, frankly. But their spirit, their mentality was just overwhelming. They were smiling as we extracted them from the boat. So I believe it was just a real miracle that we did come across these boys by this chance, that we were traveling in this--such a remote area of western Pacific. Their spirits were just so high. They were--they're incredible. And, yeah, I just--I just couldn't believe that they had that will power still after so long with no hope." Carl Quintanilla reports live in Studio 1A. In X-talk, Quintanilla and Amy Robach discuss the rescue of the three teenage boys.