An Australian sailor, Tim Shaddock, and his dog, Bella have been rescued after two months adrift in the Pacific Ocean, surviving the ordeal by drinking rainwater and feeding on raw fish.

Revealing his ordeal, Shaddock said that he set off in a boat from Mexico's seaside city of La Paz in April, and planned to sail about 6,000 kilometres (3,700 miles) before dropping anchor in tropical French Polynesia.

Shaddock added that they got stranded in the vast Pacific Ocean after rough seas damaged the vessel and knocked out its electronics.

"I have been through a very difficult ordeal at sea,"I'm just needing rest and good food because I've been alone at sea a long time” he told reporters.

Access24 reports that the Sailor and his dog were rescued from the water two months later by a Mexican tuna trawler, as Shaddock was sported in a shaggy beard.