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Search Still on for Rabi Fishermen

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Added by Stacey King on September 22, 2013 at 8:00am — No Comments

Pacific Island sailors lost at sea for 33 days wash up on remote atoll – and discover descendants of uncle feared drowned in the Fifties

By Damien Gayle Last updated at 4:14 PM on 13th December 2011

When Pacific Islanders Uein Buranibwe, 53, and Temaei Tontaake, 26, found themselves adrift, with their GPS locator broken, they feared they would meet the same end as their long-lost uncle, Bairo.

He had cast off from their island home, Kiribati, to go fishing one day in the Fifties and had never returned. He was assumed drowned in the vast expanse of the South Pacific.

But neither Mr Buranibwe nor Mr…

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Added by Stacey King on December 19, 2011 at 12:54pm — No Comments

Man and boat missing off Betio in Kiribati

Posted at 03:35 on 23 November, 2011 UTC

The United States Coast Guard is searching for a man and an aluminium skiff that went missing near Betio in Kiribati two days ago.

The Pacific News Centre reports that the 24-year-old remained aboard the two-metre boat while two companions went diving about 180 metres from land.

When they surfaced the boat and its passenger were gone, but the divers were able to swim to shore.

A Hercules aircrew stationed in…

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Added by Stacey King on November 23, 2011 at 4:14pm — No Comments

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Visiting Rabi and Ocean Island

Started by brian russell in Banaban Issues. Last reply by Stacey King Apr 16, 2020. 7 Replies

Homecoming to Banaba

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Slides of Banaba from the 1960's

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