Cruise ship rescues two men after 23 days adrift at sea
Two men have been rescued by a cruise ship after spending 23 days adrift at sea. They were located 800km off the coast of St. Lucia by Royal Caribbean’s Adventure of the Seas, which had been in the middle of a seven-night cruise around the Southern Caribbean, St. Lucia News reports.
Richie James, 22, and Ismael Nemorin, 26, had been on a fishing expedition with their friend, 43-year-old Christophe Quimper, who reportedly experienced hallucinations, jumped overboard and drowned. They were last heard from on May 20, just one day after departing Martinique, when they allegedly experienced engine problems.
Despite being missing for over three weeks, Richie’s mother, Rudy, never lost hope that her son would be found. “My heart never told me that he was dead,” she explained. “I keep telling them he is not dead, he is somewhere.”
According to Rudy, however, it might not have been such an innocent expedition after all. The mother-of-three revealed that her son had become part a bad crowd and that she had tried many times to help him break away. In fact, he had only just survived a gang-related shooting last year.