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Date: June 03, 2014 at 11:08:45
From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address]
Subject: 5 Realities of Being Lost at Sea (From a Shipwreck Survivor) |
URL: http://www.cracked.com/article_21145_5-things-i-learned-about-survival-while-i-was-lost-at-sea.html |
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5 Realities of Being Lost at Sea (From a Shipwreck Survivor)
(was going to post on WOWS board but message thing not working...
long and very interesting article at the link...
Fiction is full of stories of shipwrecked people winding up on deserted islands (like Tom Hanks in Cast Away), or, more implausibly, getting stuck for months on a raft in open water (like in Life of Pi). Well, surprisingly, real life is full of those stories, too.
We spoke to Steve Callahan, who took off from the Canary Islands in 1982 to sail to the island of Antigua in the Caribbean, completing a circuit of the North Atlantic that he began in 1981. Eight days in, a whale rammed into and sunk his boat. Steve managed to escape to a life raft with supplies and drifted across the Atlantic for 76 days before he was finally rescued. We asked Steve how such a thing is even possible, and he told us ...
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Date: June 20, 2014 at 14:36:25
From: Polydactyl in N. Bay, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 5 Realities of Being Lost at Sea (From a Shipwreck Survivor) |
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Great personal account of luck, ingenuity, and survival on the ocean. I like the part about how 'fish eyes' started to look and taste like candy, maybe due to less saline water inside(?).
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Date: June 03, 2014 at 19:59:42
From: nika, [DNS_Address]
Subject: thank you! great read and informative too.(NT) |
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