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.

Kai Sato, a California man missing in the Pacific for a month, was found alive after surviving on minimal food and seawater.

Sailor Kai Sato used an ingenious way to find drinking water after he was left drifting in the ocean without fuel or a working phone