File this under: news stories that are blatantly ripping off Tom Hanks movies.
An American TV crew filming on an mostly deserted island off the coast of the Northern Territory rescued an honest-to-god IRL castaway, who they later identified as an Aussie bloke who’d gotten into deep shit on a fishing trip.
And this is where it is in relation to the rest of Australia:
“He had tried to walk back, got beaten by the sun, and made his way back to the beach,” he said. “Meanwhile, he had suffered from sunstroke and was unable to go any further. He then spent that first night on the beach, and the next morning he tried again, but the sun had gotten to be too much for him, and at this point, he is now trapped.
“This guy is super experienced, goes out fishing a lot, he knows the landscape, he knows the dangers, and yet he succumbed to it so quickly.
“Everything was fine, and within two to three hours, everything wasn’t really fine at all.
Luckily, they found Tremine, and he lived to fish another day.
