Sailor Tim Shaddock and His Dog Rescued After 2 Months Stranded at Sea

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The seashore is wide for an Australian sailor and his canine companion.

Tim Shaddock, 51, and his canine Bella were precocious rescued aft spending 2 months stranded astatine sea. The pair was found drifting on the Pacific Ocean by a tuna trawler heading backmost to the seashore of Mexico, according to 9News

"I person been done a precise hard ordeal astatine sea," Shaddock told the Australian quality channel. "I'm conscionable needing remainder and bully nutrient due to the fact that I've been unsocial astatine oversea a agelong time. Otherwise, I'm successful precise bully health"

Shaddock acceptable sail from La Paz, Mexico, to French Polynesia 3 months ago, however, a tempest struck his catamaran a period into his journey, wiping retired each electronics.

The Sydney autochthonal said helium and Bella survived on just rainwater and earthy food caught with cogwheel helium had onboard.

He continued, "I person not had food—enough food—for a agelong time."

A doc who treated Shaddock connected the trawler told 9News that the once-adrift sailor had "normal captious signs."

"He's conscious," the physician shared successful Spanish during a quality broadcast uploaded to YouTube July 15. "He's chatty and he's eating tiny meals."

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Shaddock did not endure immoderate large unwellness oregon wounded during his clip astatine oversea and was capable to forestall superior sunburn by covering himself nether a canopy connected his catamaran, per the outlet. His canine has also been doing good since the rescue.

The duo are being transported by the tuna trawler backmost to Mexico, wherever he'll person further aesculapian attention.

"I person precise bully medicine," Shaddock added. "I'm being looked aft precise well."

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