Toakai Teitoi (b. 1971) is an I-Kiribati police officer who gained international notoriety when on September 17, 2012, he was rescued from the sea after being adrift for 105 days. Teitoi gained further notoriety when he claimed that a shark had swum around the boat and took it off in a direction followed by the eyes of Teitoi who minutes later looked up and spotted what was the stern of a purse seiner with a bunch of crewmen with binoculars looking at him.
It was the second case of Kiribati Islanders involved in such incidents after a similar incident on December 19, 2011 when two fishermen landed in the Marshall Islands. The men, aged 53 and 26 had been adrift for 33 days. The two men, were also involved in a rare incident upon landing when the 26-year-old found that his uncle, who had disappeared at sea more than 25 years ago and was long believed dead, had landed in the Marshall Islands as well and married there, where he also had children.
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