16 months adrift?????

JD Mandrell

JD Mandrell

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[h=1]Man washed up on boat on Marshall Islands says he's been adrift 16 months[/h]

STORY

Trying to wrap my head around this as even possible, but if true, what a story!
 
I read a book back in the late 90's about a family surviving in a life-raft for (i think) over a year. The had line and hooks, survived on fish/seabirds/turtles. Had some kind of tarp and possibly buckets to catch rainwater. I've tried to find that book again (it was a library book) but its no longer in their collection.
 
tholiver said:
I read a book back in the late 90's about a family surviving in a life-raft for (i think) over a year. The had line and hooks, survived on fish/seabirds/turtles. Had some kind of tarp and possibly buckets to catch rainwater. I've tried to find that book again (it was a library book) but its no longer in their collection.
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That might be the Robertsons, but they were adrift 38 days. The father wrote a book "Survive The Savage Sea" which was made into a movie with Robert Urich in the 1990's.

The record "lost at sea" was a group of Mexican fishermen that were adrift for 9 months from late 2005 to summer 2006.
 
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