Rescued After 30 Days Adrift: Solo sailor Kai Sato survives on scraps; container ship pulls him to safety

Photo credit: Hawaii News Now A California man has been rescued alive after spending 30 days stranded at sea when his sailboat lost its mast, his phone died and he ran out of gas far from shore. Kai Sato, 39, was found drifting about 900 miles from Hawaii by the crew of a passing container ship, ending a desperate solo voyage that had nearly turned fatal.Sato had left Catalina Island on June 7 hoping to complete his first solo crossing of the Pacific, according to reports from Hawaii News Now and the Seafarers International Union. Instead, he found himself alone in open ocean, badly off course and fighting for survival.A voyage gone wrongWhat started as an ambitious personal journey quickly unraveled after Sato’s mast snapped and the phone he was using for navigation stopped working. He said he initially tried to motor back toward shore, but the boat ran out of fuel, leaving him “like a sitting duck” as currents pushed him farther south, as per reports.For days, he said, he felt overwhelmed and hopeless. In an interview with Hawaii News Now, Sato said he cried for a week while drifting helplessly and even thought about turning on the motor and suffocating himself. It was a terrifyi...