Bad day to go fishing

Courtesy of my Dutch friend Bicycle, the ABC (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) has a story about some lucky guys:

Two fisherman have been rescued in the Torres Strait after spending nearly a month floating at sea in a big esky. The men were rescued off Horn Island in the Torres Strait after they were spotted by a customs coastwatch plane on Saturday. Tracey Jiggins from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority says the men were taken to Thursday Island hospital and told interpreters they were on a fishing boat that sank on 23 December. "They were on a thirty-foot wooden fishing vessel that sunk, they have been drifting in this esky for the last 25 days," she said. Ms Jiggins says the pair told police there were eighteen others in the water when the boat sank and nobody had life jackets or any flotation aids.

Rico says the story doesn't say where they were from, but odds are they weren't Australian. (Aha; The Sydney Morning Herald has an article that says they're probably Burmese and that "it is believed the boat set off from Thailand with Burmese and Thai crew members.") Nor does it explain what an 'industrial-sized red esky' is, though Rico did find that photo in a post by The New Zealand Herald, which says it was an "insulated box that held ice on the boat"...