INTERNATIONAL NEWS - Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiaba had set off in a small sailing boat from Hawaii on a trip to Tahiti with their dogs, when their engine, damaged by the bad weather, failed.
Their boat then drifted in the open seas about 1,500km (930 miles) southeast of Japan.
They were rescued after a fishing vessel alerted US authorities.
The pair, who set off in May, originally thought that they could reach land by relying on wind and sails, the US Navy's Seventh fleet said in a statement.
"Two months into their journey and long past when they originally estimated they would reach Tahiti, they began to issue distress calls," the statement added.
The US Navy said the two women continued with the calls daily, but that their signals were not picked up because they "were not close enough to other vessels or shore stations".
