Sailor & his canine ‘Bella’ rescued after 2 months adrift at sea, survived by consuming uncooked fish | BUZZ

An Australian sailor rescued along with his canine expresses his pleasure on his rescue, after greater than two months adrift within the Pacific Ocean. Tim Shaddock was picked up along with his canine “Bella” by a tuna vessel, after the pair survived for weeks on uncooked fish and rainwater on their storm-crippled boat. He arrived Tuesday on the Mexican port of Manzanillo. Thin, with a bushy beard and wild hair bunched right into a pink cap sporting a brand of fishing firm, whose vessel had come to his rescue, Tim regarded joyful. 54-year-old Tim and Bella had set off from Mexico’s seaside metropolis of La Paz in April, and deliberate to sail about 6,000 kilometers earlier than dropping anchor in tropical French Polynesia. But they quickly discovered themselves stranded after tough seas broken the vessel and knocked out its electronics.