Shark "Rescues" Man Lost at Sea 15 Weeks
A lost fisherman who drifted at sea for 15 weeks, sleeping next to his dead brother-in-law, was eventually helped to safety -- by a shark. . . .
[Toakai Teitoi] continued to pray regularly and on the morning of September 11 caught sight of a fishing boat in the distance but the crew were unable to see him.
Dejected, he did what he had done most days, curling up under a small covered area in the bow to stay out of the tropical sun.
Mr Teitoi said he woke in the afternoon to the sound of scratching and looked overboard to see a six-foot shark circling the boat and bumping the hull.
When the shark had his attention it swam off.
"He was guiding me to a fishing boat," says the fisherman. "I looked up and there was the stern of a ship and I could see crew with binoculars looking at me."
