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Rescued Guayaguayare fishermen’s first meal was KFC
Rescued Guayaguayare fishermen: (From left) Walter Whiteman, Frank Anthony Sandy and Shaquille Charles. -
AFTER five days of surviving on rainwater and raw fish while lost at sea, the first meal three Guayaguayare fishermen ate after making their way back home was some Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC).
A relative confirmed this to Newsday on Wednesday evening saying the rescued fishermen Shaquille Charles, Frank Anthony Sandy, and Walter Whiteman asked for KFC shortly after coming home.
“They had eaten raw fish for five days so they really wanted to enjoy one of their favourite meals and that was KFC,” the relative said. Charles, Sandy and Whiteman created a paddle out of pieces of wood and two bucket covers and paddled for days and nights until they made it to Morne Diablo, west of Guayaguayare, on Tuesday morning.
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3 fishermen survive 5 days lost at sea on raw fish, rainwater
Tuesday 15 December 2020
THANKFUL:
Guayaguayare fisherman Ryan Jones is thankful for the safe return of fishermen Shaquille Charles, Frank Anthony Sandy and Walter Whitemen after they were rescued on Tuesday. Jones is holding makeshift paddles the fishermen used while they were lost at sea for five days. - Marvin Hamilton
THREE Guayaguayare fishermen lost at sea for the last five days survived by eating raw fish, drinking rain water, and creating a paddle with pieces of wood and two bucket covers.
Shaquille Charles, Frank Anthony Sandy, and Walter Whiteman paddled day and night in the “middle of nowhere” until they made it to the waters of Morne Diablo on Tuesday morning.
Lost at sea for almost five days, and with search teams losing hope, three Guayaguayare fishermen found a way to save themselves.
They fashioned a makeshift paddle with wood and two bucket covers after their pirogue developed engine problems and stalled in the open Atlantic Ocean, off Trinidadâs South coast.
Fearing a watery grave, Shaquille Charles, Walter Whiteman and Antonio Frank Sandy said they paddled day and night to keep the boat from being swept away from the island.
Food ran out on the second day but the men were not prepared to starve.
They said they survived by eating slivers of salmon they had caught overnight and which they had left out in the sun, the Express was told.