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I thought it would be fun for me to drop a few quotes now and again out of one of my favorite non-fiction survival books "Adrift - Seventy Six Days Lost at Sea".
Here is the first - please feel free to discuss, quote, or generally add on to these.
Background:
Day three in his survival tale. He is in his raft, and has inventoried his gear. He is soaked, struggling to stay warm (it is pouring) and suffering from sea water boils that are coating his body.
"Perhaps my biggest worry is that I have not replacement or backup for my single rubber raft. It will take extreme luck to keep it together for more than a month. I remember a film I saw when I was young, You Make Your Luck. I've got to do the best I can, the very best. I cannot shirk or procrastinate. I cannot withdraw. The torn blue deserts ourside will not accommodate me. I have often hidden things from myself. I has sometimes fooled other people. But Nature is not such a dolt. I may be lucky enough to be forgiven some mistakes, the ones that don't matter, but I can't count on luck. Yet even if I show the skill and determination of the Bailey's [Staying Alive, 1974] or Robertson's, [Survive the Savage Sea, 1973] I may die. How many others with greater skill and more determination have not returned to tell their tale?"
(Page 53 - Brackets are mine)
TF
Here is the first - please feel free to discuss, quote, or generally add on to these.
Background:
Day three in his survival tale. He is in his raft, and has inventoried his gear. He is soaked, struggling to stay warm (it is pouring) and suffering from sea water boils that are coating his body.
"Perhaps my biggest worry is that I have not replacement or backup for my single rubber raft. It will take extreme luck to keep it together for more than a month. I remember a film I saw when I was young, You Make Your Luck. I've got to do the best I can, the very best. I cannot shirk or procrastinate. I cannot withdraw. The torn blue deserts ourside will not accommodate me. I have often hidden things from myself. I has sometimes fooled other people. But Nature is not such a dolt. I may be lucky enough to be forgiven some mistakes, the ones that don't matter, but I can't count on luck. Yet even if I show the skill and determination of the Bailey's [Staying Alive, 1974] or Robertson's, [Survive the Savage Sea, 1973] I may die. How many others with greater skill and more determination have not returned to tell their tale?"
(Page 53 - Brackets are mine)
TF
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