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General Discussion => Science & Nature => Topic started by: Simon on December 11, 2011, 21:58

Title: How do you survive a month adrift at sea?
Post by: Simon on December 11, 2011, 21:58

After a month adrift on the ocean, two men have been found on a deserted island in the Pacific. How could anyone survive being at sea for so long?

Two sailors from Kiribati are recovering after spending more than a month drifting in a small boat in the South Pacific Ocean. The pair were eventually found on an isolated atoll on the southern fringes of the Marshall Islands, 500km (300 miles) from home.

For 33 days the men from Kiribati, a former British colony that straddles the Equator, defied a combination of mountainous waves, howling winds and strong ocean currents to emerge weak and hungry but alive at the end of an astonishing journey.

Little is known about how they survived but theirs is a story of true resilience.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15928312

Title: Re: How do you survive a month adrift at sea?
Post by: Clive on December 11, 2011, 22:06

We await the serialisation of their story in the Daily Mail.   ;D

Title: Re: How do you survive a month adrift at sea?
Post by: Rik on December 12, 2011, 10:18

Makes me think of Robinson Crusoe.

Title: Re: How do you survive a month adrift at sea?
Post by: Clive on December 12, 2011, 10:55

Makes me think of cannibalism.   mmmmmm Yummy.   ;D

Title: Re: How do you survive a month adrift at sea?
Post by: Rik on December 12, 2011, 10:57

I don't have to think of it, Clive, it's in my genes.  :devil:

Title: Re: How do you survive a month adrift at sea?
Post by: Clive on December 12, 2011, 10:58

 :hee-hee: