13 Months at Sea - I don't know 'bout that.....

[Rick]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/03/world/...ands-castaway/

[natertot]

It is hard to believe. If it is true, he is a very lucky man.

[hunter63]

I find it hard to believe as well.......
Glad he made it.

[Rick]

He looks pretty....um...plump....to have been adrift for that long. No word on his buddy. Just sayin'. Buddy dies, he's plump. Just to show the Bear does know what he's talking about he drank his urine although I think it was only during the cocktail hour.

[Grizz123]

looks like he was eating very well and his hair and beard didnt grow much unless he was somehow shaving

[Wildthang]

I think he has been on that island in the Atolls for a long time and was hangin out with some island girl.

[BENESSE]

There's more to the story.

[crashdive123]

Way to "plump", way to fair skinned for this to have happened as told IMO.

[Phaedrus]

I'm a bit dubious about his tale, too. I wouldn't be surprised if the story changes a bit in the weeks to come.

[jfeatherjohn]

It was very hard for me to survive a 7 day cruise...I kept falling in the pools...

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[Rick]

Buhahahahahaha! That and the floor kept moving in the casino. Don't you just hate the top forward deck?!

[Great Dane]

It's a great story. But 13 months adrift at sea and surviving? I don't buy it.
The food is one thing, especially actually getting hold of it, but there's just no way he would be able to procure water enough without quite a lot of gear.
Sure you can make a solar still, if you have the gear for it, and you can hope it rains quite often, but even storing rainwater would be almost impossible in such a setting.

There's got to be something more to the story.

[Batch]

you can hope it rains quite often, but even storing rainwater would be almost impossible in such a setting.

There's got to be something more to the story.

Remember that his entire voyage took place within the Tropic of Cancer. There is a lot of rainfall in this area. You can count on almost daily torrential downpours during a good part of the year.He had a 23' collection vessel for rainwater.

His companion survived for months and died of starvation and exposure. He starved because he had a difficult time with the idea of eating raw meat.

This would be a great scenario if we could get an actual inventory of what was on board the boat.

I have said before that a great show would be a to have a panel of "expert" survivalist. Cody, Bear, Les, Dave, Mykel... Get at least 12 people on the panel. More is better. Then take real life scenarios and out of the volunteers from the panel select 4 groups to be put into as similar a situation as possible and see how the would fare.

Obviously you couldn't make it a 13 month ordeal. But, you could show how they deal with water and food procurement. Film then for a week or so and have the rest of the panel say how they might have handled the situation. also, the "survivors" can tell of what they thought might have been a good idea and then when they tried it why it wasn't like they thought.

You could take questions like why the guy didn't get scurvy after so many months at sea and have the doctors explain the vitamin C levels in fresh raw meat. Rainfall level during the period that he was adrift. Tropical storm activity he would have experienced. stuff like that.