10 Temaei Tontaake and Buranibwe Uein10In October 2011, two men living in the South Pacific, Temaei Tontaake and Buranibwe, are on the way from Uein their island, Marakei, to a nearby island of Abaiang called. The trip only 80 miles away and not take much time, but their GPS run out of batteries and they have lost. Fortunately, they've got their stuff and fishery was able to capture a number of shark species; then they used the shark meat as bait and catch some tuna. their big problem is water. It doesn't rain much and had they been forced to drink sea water.They are at sea for 33 days before ending on a coral atoll, Namdrik call. On the island, they met some local people and Tontaake learned that local people are the offspring of his uncles were lost long ago who everyone thought was dead while at sea the past 50 years. It turns out that his uncle had ended as a person shipwrecked on the very same reef. When he couldn't get out, he has settled, has a family and died the following year on the atoll.Tontaake and Buranibwe have been able to realize the coral islands from a passing ship, a few days after arriving and then they flew home.9. Nakahama Manjiro9In 1841, Manjiro Nakahama 14 years and his ship set out on a fishing trip from villages in Japan, which is now called Tosashimizu. After a terrible storm that they were shipwrecked on an island far off the coast of Japan, they were found by Captain William Whitfield, an American from Fairhaven, Massachusetts. He took them on board and spent most of the boats in Hawaii. But during their time on the ship, and Nakahama Whitfield became close friends and Nakahama return Fairhaven with Whitfield, which led him to become the first Japanese person to live in the United States.Nakahama learned to speak English and when it came time to develop relations with Japan, Nakahama has been used as an interpreter. Today Tosashimizu and Fairhaven are sister cities and there is a Congress Whitfield-Manjiro that held an annual Festival to honor them.
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