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Posted on 1/31/14 at 1:53 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Life of Jose
Posted on 1/31/14 at 1:58 pm to DrunkenStuporMan
quote:
How do you drift for that long and end up where he did without once getting near land or a boat or something? Just doesn't make any sense.
Yep, a lot of sailboats make the trip from Mexico/Central America to the Pacific Islands in the spring every year
Posted on 1/31/14 at 1:58 pm to PierPunk
quote:
Damn, dudes a straight up badass
Maybe, but a real shitty navigator.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:07 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Like a Jefe
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:09 pm to tigerfan4120
quote:
he clearly ate his "companion who died at sea"
Yep.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:10 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
key word left out here... CLAIMS to have survived 16 months. could be 6 days fwiw
ETA: i didn't read the article
ETA: i didn't read the article
This post was edited on 1/31/14 at 2:10 pm
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:13 pm to Vegas Eddie
For those that like to read, this is a good book about a very similar survival situation...only throw in being captured by the Japanese after you wash up on shore and spending the next few months in a prisoner of war camp avoiding getting your head chopped off samurai style.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:21 pm to Sid in Lakeshore
I viewed this thread hoping it would be great news about James.
Then I remembered it's been much longer than 16 months.
Then I remembered it's been much longer than 16 months.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:24 pm to Swoopin
I actually thought of Pi
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:27 pm to DrunkenStuporMan
quote:You think he turned down land? 10 months in: "Nah, I'm good. Beach is too dirty. They might have better land just over the horizon."
How do you drift for that long and end up where he did without once getting near land or a boat or something? Just doesn't make any sense.
This post was edited on 1/31/14 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:33 pm to boom roasted
Im not saying he turned it down. I'm amazed at the fact he didn't see any for 16 months.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:36 pm to DrunkenStuporMan
I think his story adds up mostl, but 16 months seems extreme. Can you really hydrate off turtle blood? How was he catching these said turtles? I say he wa adrift for less than a year but not 16 months.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:36 pm to MrBiriwa
quote:I say 12 months adrift, 4 months alien abduction.
I say he wa adrift for less than a year but not 16 months.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:37 pm to DrunkenStuporMan
quote:He might have seen some, but if they're off in the distance, how in the world are you going to get there?
Im not saying he turned it down. I'm amazed at the fact he didn't see any for 16 months.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:41 pm to 10MTNTiger
quote:
For those that like to read, this is a good book about a very similar survival situation...only throw in being captured by the Japanese after you wash up on shore and spending the next few months in a prisoner of war camp avoiding getting your head chopped off samurai style.
YES - was just about to post about Unbroken. One of the best books/stories I've ever read. The guy was literally batting sharks away with oars.
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The three survivors (Zamperini and his crewmates, pilot Russel Allen "Phil" Phillips and Francis "Mac" McNamara), with little food and no water, subsisted on captured rainwater and small fish eaten raw. They caught two albatrosses, which they ate and used to catch fish, all while fending off constant shark attacks and nearly being capsized by a storm. They were strafed multiple times by a Japanese bomber, puncturing their life raft, but no one was hit. McNamara died after thirty-three days at sea.
On their 47th day adrift, Zamperini and Phillips reached land in the Marshall Islands and were immediately captured by the Japanese Navy. They were held in captivity and severely beaten and mistreated until the end of the war in August, 1945.
This post was edited on 1/31/14 at 2:45 pm
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:42 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
"Stories of survival in the vast Pacific are not uncommon. In 2006, three Mexicans made international headlines when they were discovered drifting, also in a small fibreglass boat near the Marshall Islands, nine months after setting out on a shark-fishing expedition. They survived on a diet of rainwater, raw fish and seabirds, with their hope kept alive by reading the Bible.
In 1992, two fishermen from Kiribati were at sea for 177 days before coming ashore in Samoa."
In 1992, two fishermen from Kiribati were at sea for 177 days before coming ashore in Samoa."
This post was edited on 1/31/14 at 2:43 pm
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:46 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
i call bullshite
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:52 pm to mooseknuckle
quote:
i call bullshite
especially the parts about fishing and catching turtles and birds with his bare hands. an emaciated man could not do such things, and get himself back in a boat. about the only bird he could catch was the ones that came to eat his dead friend most likely.
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