船坏了，一个人漂在海上四十多天，他还是活了下来

Kai Sato is an American, thirty-nine years old this year.

He loves boats, and had long had one dream: to sail alone to Hawaii.

In June, he really did set off, all by himself.

But out at sea, the weather turned bad, his boat broke, and it couldn't move.

And so, all alone, he drifted on the open ocean for more than forty days.

At sea there was no water, and not much to eat.

He was clever: with a few pipes, he made himself a tiny sail.

With no water to drink, he found a way to collect the moisture in the air, bit by bit.

When hungry, he ate a little oatmeal, plus fish that jumped onto the boat.

For a few days he really wanted to give up, and cried alone for a long time.

But in the end, he decided: I am going to live.

Slowly, he steered the boat toward the routes where big ships pass.

One day in July, a very big ship finally spotted him and rescued him.

At that point, he was still nine hundred miles from Hawaii.