This may not have made the mainstream US media, but the link below should take you to an extraordinary survival story off the northern coast of Australia.
A story written by a former journalist colleague who has been around the game as long as I have, so I can vouch for his scruples with the facts....
I make no comment at this time on the survival issues which arise out of this. Some of them relate to the background of the people involved, and the fact that this is the tropics...
Cheers, PeterRattenbury, Wollongong , Australia...

http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2004/07/13/1089694362598.html