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Google Earth Finds Woman Trapped on Deserted Island for 7 Years
Posted on 3/19/14 at 1:28 pm
Posted on 3/19/14 at 1:28 pm
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In 2007, Gemma Sheridan and 2 friends set out on a voyage that was to take them from their home town of Liverpool, across the Atlantic to the Panama Canal and then onwards to the beautiful island of Hawaii. The first stage of the voyage went without incident. However, after passing through the Panama Canal and into the Pacific, things started to take a turn for the worse. There was a huge storm that took out the boats electronics and washed her 2 friends overboard and seriously damaged her boat. Without any electronics and with a damaged boat, Gemma drifted for 17 days until she was hit by another major storm. During the storm, Gemma was knocked unconscious and the rest is history. Gemma awoke on a beach, surrounded by wreckage from her boat. Here is a short account of some of the things she endured: Within the first hour I had a major panic attack. It was a disturbing feeling, being alone, isolated, so far from home without a hope. I had been on water rations for the last 2 weeks, so finding water was the first priority. There where no pools of fresh water, so I had to rig up a contraption that drew the water away from the rock and it provided for one drop every 40 seconds. That was my water source, so it was coconuts until it rained. Not a great start. The amount of energy everything took was massively beyond what I expected. And it was mentally taxing. For the first 2 weeks I stayed in a mock shelter i made from debris that washed ashore. I needed to find real shelter, I found a large tree that looked perfect. I nibbled away at the bark of a tree with a giant clam shell for 11 days just to build a shelter. It might have been bomb-proof and waterproof in the end and it’s probably still standing but if I’d had a machete, just that one tool, I would have been able to build it in a few hours. It was four weeks before I managed to light a fire – you have no idea how happy that made me. There were eight feral goats on the island, four adults and four kids. I saw them on day one and they seemed to taunt me by coming so close I could almost touch them. I made a bow and arrow, but this just went twang and fell on the floor. And my spear wasn’t sharp enough. So, when the hunting tools didn’t work, I spent seven days building a coral-type trap with spikes on it and everything. I thought “Yes. This’ll do it”. It didn’t. One day I was walking round the island looking for crabs and saw what I thought was driftwood caught up in the bottom of this tree. Then it bleated. This goat had been eating the leaves, got its horns caught and panicked. It was a massive thing, about 45 or 50 kilos and it was meat, so I tried squeezing its windpipe but that wouldn’t do it and then I had to bash it on the head with a clam shell. It took about 15 minutes to kill it and was quite gruesome. It showed me how far I was from being able to hunt because even though it was trapped it still took me quarter of an hour. Fast forward a few years and everything had changed: The physical side was tough but ultimately fine. I did a series of exercises on the beach every day – press-ups, chin-ups on a tree branch, squats with boulders on my shoulders and shuttle runs of about 300 metres. I had managed to get to a stage when I was getting stronger. The difficulty was elsewhere. My mind was lonely and it was begining to dawn on me that I may never be saved. Usually if you’re on a desert island and you start talking to yourself it is an indication that things are going wrong. I had a sign on the beach that was about 10 feet high, but it had sat there all this time and nothing came of it. So I decided to go all out, I spent the next few weeks clearing space and finding materials to build a huge sign in the sand on the beach. My hope was that perhaps a plane might fly over and see it, but in all my time on the island, I had not seen 1 single plane fly over. I didnt give up though.
Posted on 3/19/14 at 1:30 pm to JOJO Hammer
Cripes, where's the picture and the link is broken. Why don't people internet? shite.
Posted on 3/19/14 at 1:33 pm to JOJO Hammer
But google earth can't find naked women on the beach...bullshite technology
Posted on 3/19/14 at 1:34 pm to JOJO Hammer
come on guys
hoax
why do i always have to be the adult on here?
hoax
why do i always have to be the adult on here?
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The “SOS” picture used in the article was actually taken in 2010 amid reports of “widespread destruction” in Kyrgyzstan.
This post was edited on 3/19/14 at 1:35 pm
Posted on 3/19/14 at 1:34 pm to JOJO Hammer
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This post was edited on 3/19/14 at 1:35 pm
Posted on 3/19/14 at 1:34 pm to JOJO Hammer
I'm surprised they even sent a plane out there. I mean, what government official is going to believe that stuff when a kid from Minnesota calls?
Posted on 3/19/14 at 1:35 pm to JOJO Hammer
I never have understood how people can be knocked unconscious and wake up on an island. Was she lucky enough to be knocked unconscious on a plank of wood that she didnt fall off of until it washed ashore?
Posted on 3/19/14 at 1:35 pm to Choctaw
Posted on 3/19/14 at 1:36 pm to The Sad Banana
Posted on 3/19/14 at 1:36 pm to Choctaw
I'm calling bullshite too.
ETA: called bullshite too late.
ETA: called bullshite too late.
This post was edited on 3/19/14 at 1:37 pm
Posted on 3/19/14 at 1:36 pm to JOJO Hammer
Umm... pretty sure I watched this exact scenario on Naked Castaway
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