Indonesian teen survives 49 days adrift at sea on floating fish trap

Aldi Novel Adilang was employed since age 16 in one of the world's loneliest jobs: lamp lighter on a rompong - a wooden raft with a hut on top that's lit at night to attract fish - moored about 125 kilometres off the coast of North Sulawesi. On July 14, the rompong slipped its mooring and he drifted thousands of kilometers away to Guam waters. The 19-year-old was rescued by a Panamanian-flagged vessel on August 31.
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