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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... paign=1490

When you think about it; thirteen months adrift had to be particularly nightmarish. It's as if you'd been locked away in solitary confinement and forgotten.

I wonder why no one mentions or asks about the obvious. Did he eat his teenage fishing companion? Understandable under the circumstances, but not something most decent human beings would admit to willingly.

I bet he ate the kid. If the kid died first, I have no issues. You have to survive and people are just pork.

DARTH wrote:I bet he ate the kid. If the kid died first, I have no issues. You have to survive and people are just pork.

The real other white meat. Well in that case, maybe brown meat.

Dude's looking pretty good, actually.

Even if he ate his friend, that'd only last you for a little while, since he'd spoil before you could swallow him all down.

This is the guy who spent 76 days at sea. Skinnier than our 13 month guy.

I call bullshit......which makes the story better IMO.

I call bullshit

Im leaning this way too.

tough old man wrote:

I call bullshit

Im leaning this way too.

I thought that was obvious.

That's Osama Bin Laden you pussies.

Lemmegitmuhgunzzz

This is annoyingly easy to debunk. Nobody deliberately goes to the Marshall Islands in a 24-foot fishing boat, and boats there won't look be the same boats where he allegedly came from. The boat he was found in is either local to Mexico or local to the Atolls. Nobody's shipping one there for a goof.

His family looks happy.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2dw6u5RxWg[/youtube]

His skin doesn't look like leather, and he got lucky. Suspicious. OTOH, maybe there are hundreds of people out there drifting, and only a couple percent hit shore before dying. *shudder*

You never know nowadays, but I'm inclined to believe his story. The fact that he survived 13-14 months is evidence he was capable and had the opportunity to find enough to survive on.

I believe his main issue was not food, but water.

He survived 13 months at sea? He's an @fitter, right?

Grandpa's Spells wrote:. OTOH, maybe there are hundreds of people out there drifting, and only a couple percent hit shore before dying. *shudder*

I would not doubt that. Especially from places like Mexico, Central America and other 2nd and 3rd World nations where they might be less inclined to have a radio on the boat, file travel plans, have a real Coast Guard and whatever.


And add to that Yuppies who buy boats, learn a little about sailing and then take to the high seas thinking "What can go wrong?" right up to the point where something does.

The sea is a harsh, mean bitch. I don't fuck with her.