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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: GRUNHERZ on September 25, 2002, 04:34:28 AM
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http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/West/09/24/man.adrift/index.html
WOW!! Old guy!
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wow :)
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I can't imagine living for more than 3 months on fish and the occasional seagull.
"The boat was so badly damaged that it had to be sunk."
Read: The military was too lazy to tow the thing back to port.
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hopefully he kept a detailed diary
once that is published as a book/made-for-tv-movie, he'll be set for life
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Originally posted by Mickey1992
I can't imagine living for more than 3 months on fish and the occasional seagull.
"The boat was so badly damaged that it had to be sunk."
Read: The military was too lazy to tow the thing back to port.
Fish and fowl for 3 months, no dairy, no vegetables.... wow. I'm surprised the guy isn't dead from malnutrition. Although, the article said he lived on the boat as a residence when in the harbor, so maybe he had some supplies on board. Still, normally people only keep about 2 weeks worth of food in their cupboard. I can't imagine trying to stretch my kitchen supplies for 3 months!
If the boat is floating, it ain't so badly damaged that it can't be repaired. I think it was a case of the military not being able to tow it due to the distance, but not being able to haul it aboard because of it larger size. Costa Rica to California would be a pretty long tow job.
You should read an account of the whale ship Essex sometime. Those poor bastages had their entire ship taken out from under them by a sperm whale, and the incident inspired the classic novel "Moby Dick". They spent 3 months at sea in open dinghys, trying to reach South America. They had little water, little food, improvised sails, no shelter. They ate barnacles off the hulls of the boats and resorted to cannibalism for survival, and eventually murder near the end. They were living skeletons when they were found. Grueling stuff.
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That's nothing- My wife and I went camping for a week and when we got there we discovered we'd forgotten our corkscrew and we were forced to live on food and water for the entire week. It was Hell.
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screw that
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Have you guys ever read Captain Blighs diary (mutiny on the bounty)
I got it around here some where but I remember they would catch seagulls and quarter it. They would give the guts to the "sickest man"
I remember one passage
"Today was another hard one, we eat seagull guts with saltwater gravy".........
Kinda like the Donner party and the one womens Diary
"Today was difficult as we had to eat grand pa"
A guess it sums it up, nothing more then a couple of bad days. :)
I suspect people were a bit "tougher" back then.
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Human race is very flexible; we can adapt to new situations very fast when our life is in danger.
Think about that rugby team in the andies in southern America.
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Originally posted by Wotan
...Kinda like the Donner party and the one womens Diary
"Today was difficult as we had to eat grand pa"
I saw a documentary about the Donner Party and it just blew me away. The filmmakers interspersed shots of the site in modern-day and compared it to photos taken at the time, and showed the differences between Spring and Winter. I can't imagine the horrors those people endured up there in the pass.