They Went To Sea In A Sieve

Two Burmese fishermen were rescued at sea in the Torres Strait, after being spotted adrift in a large icebox.

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Survived

Which brings to mind one of Edward Lear's poems, The Jumblies:


The water it soon came in, it did,
The water it soon came in;
So to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet
In a pinky paper all folded neat,
And they fastened it down with a pin.
And they passed the night in a crockery-jar,
And each of them said, `How wise we are!
Though the sky be dark, and the voyage be long,
Yet we never can think we were rash or wrong,
While round in our Sieve we spin!'
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Moral of the story: don't go to sea in a Sieve.