It was supposed to be an idyllic trip of a lifetime around the Pacific for one sailor – but instead it turned into a nightmare.
Wong, from Singapore, was hoping to spend three years travelling the seas on his yacht, visiting different countries – but the virus outbreak meant countries started closing their ports to him as he tried to dock.
“I pleaded with them [and said] I didn’t have anywhere to go. They said to head back to the ocean,” he told me, about his arrival off Tuvalu.
And with nowhere to dock, the ocean was indeed where he found himself, wandering alone with no end in sight.
After almost three months, with food and fuel supplies getting dangerously low, he was finally rescued by the Fijian coast guard.
Source:Â bbc.com