Uein Buranibwe and Temaei Tontaake were lost at sea for 33 days in 2012 before washing up on one of the Marshall Islands. Over 350 miles from home, their GPS had stopped working, and they were surviving on fish they were catching. On Namdrik Island, the two were given food and water, but, more than that, they reconnected with family. One of the men found out that his uncle, who his family presumed had drowned fifty years earlier, had actually washed up on the same island. He had married a local and lived out his life on the island. Although the uncle had since passed, the man got to meet relatives he never knew existed. What a reward for surviving nearly five weeks lost at sea!
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