"I will never set sail again. Never."

Spoken by seventy-year-old Spanish fisherman Cristo Herrera who was rescued last week after spending 23 days adrift in the Atlantic. Herrera and his partner, Jose Quevado, 61, set off from Cadiz in south-western Spain, on a four-day voyage to the Canary Islands. Within hours of leaving, the engine failed on their 33 foot fishing boat, the radio failed and they could not get a cell phone signal.

Rescue appeared certain on the first day as a Moroccan boat spotted the drifting fishermen and pulled alongside. That boat's occupants turned out to be thieves who stole the fishermen's phones. The pair were reported missing on March 15 after one of Quevado's children called his father's cell phone and got through to an Arabic speaker. The fishermen were finally rescued last Friday by a Cypriot merchant ship 160 miles south of Tenerife.

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