survive 50 days adrift in Pacific

Tough couple of kids!

Survival at sea definately has it's own unique problems. Long while back I read a book called "The Raft" by a guy last named Trumbill, or Trumbal, or something like that. It was about three U.S. airmen off a carrier in WW2, who did 30 some days in a life raft. They ate fish and caught rain water on rags.

There was another one, a Book called "Survive The Savage Sea"or something like that, about a whole family who had to take to a life raft after their sailboat was ramed by a whale. The made it a long time too.

I guess that fishing kit in the PSK was real handy.
 
I read that this morning, too. Amazing. The thing they should be most thankful for is that they got rescued when they did:

"They did mention that during the last two days they had started drinking salt water, which could have been disastrous for them," he added.

They must have drank very little of it, as that would have killed them for sure. I wonder how that seagull tasted.:eek:
 
The ocean is the largest "wilderness" on the planet, yet how often do we see a post about surviving there?
 
I posted it in my blog too.

My first thought was: it was very telling about the "mental disposition" (i.e. - will to survive) those kids must've had.

Is it somewhere between naivete of their real plight or an unblemished enthusiasm to go on with life that gets lost as we grow older?
 
Glad their OK.
I just saw an episode of "I survived", where a guy survived 76 days!!!! on a life raft. making his own water with solar stills...harpooning fish that swam next to his raft.
That is something, in a raft, cant hardly stand up, bobbing all around, in a raft the size of a bathroom for 76 days alone...amazing.
 
Thanks guys for your comments.

Sharing hard time with two or three people seems better than doing so alone, which also
worked for them in this case I believe.
Anyway, fifty days in open water I cannot even imagine how hard it is.

Personally I want to know how they could catch a seabird.
 
Thanks for catching up, untamed.
Really an amazing story.

BTW their home islands looks like a wonderful place.
 
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