Family adrift six days in skiff found by U.S. and New Zealand rescuers

12:59 AM Tue 9 Nov 2010 GMT

'Family rescued in joint international effort' .

A family that set out for a six mile cruise in a 13ft skiff were lost for six days in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean after their outboard engine failed. They have now been rescued. After their home nation of Kiribati made an international appeal for help, The U.S. Coast Guard and the New Zealand Air Force cooperated to try to locate the missing family. They were spotted drifting in their boat by the New Zealand Air Force. A fast rescue ship was then dispatched by the U.S. Coast Guard to pick then up 2,300 miles south of ...

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by Des Ryan