The animal supposedly guided the man to a fishing boat

Sep 18, 2012 07:17 GMT  ·  By

As mind-boggling as it may sound, one man recently got rescued after having spent 15 weeks drifting aimlessly in the Pacific Ocean.

Back in May, the Toakai Teitoi and his brother-in-law, Lelu Falaile, wished to sail from Kiribati to Maiana, yet somehow fell victim to the strong ocean currents and soon discovered they had no idea where they were and what they needed to do in order to return home.

Because they had no fresh water to drink, Lelu Falaile died after about a month, yet Toakai Teitoi managed to keep going.

He now claims that he owes his life to a shark, which supposedly helped him come close to a fishing boat.

Sources inform us that the man woke up one afternoon because this animal kept hitting his boat, and that once the shark got his attention, it simply swam away.

“He was guiding me to a fishing boat. I looked up and there was the stern of a ship and I could see crew with binoculars looking at me,” Toakai told members of the press.