Man Adrift at Sea for 16 Months washes up in Marshall Islands
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I needed to like, double take and refresh the page before I believed the thread title. Stuff like this is fuckall unbelievable. Still. I hope him the best, hopefully he recovers from medical conditions in the like. If he got scurvy that fucking sucks. Scurvy is probably one of the most horrible things you can get, but I'm not sure how long you have to go without vitamins in order to actually get it.
What bittersweet luck landing there. On one hand, hey, rescue. Civilization. TV Dinners. Home! On the other hand, he bumbled into the radioactive remains of the biggest US nuclear tests ever done.
Props on surviving that long, hope he doesn't end up with radioactive decay products in his system while he's there.
[QUOTE=TestECull;43744315]What bittersweet luck landing there. On one hand, hey, rescue. Civilization. TV Dinners. Home! On the other hand, he bumbled into the radioactive remains of the biggest US nuclear tests ever done.
Props on surviving that long, hope he doesn't end up with radioactive decay products in his system while he's there.[/QUOTE]
He just survived 16 months at sea in a shitty ass boat surviving by drinking turtle blood and eating probably raw meat. I don't think a little bit of pansy ass radiation is going to even dare fuck him up.
Its funny because turtle soup is slang for cannibalism when used in the context of being adrift at sea.
[QUOTE]There was a turtle on the boat when it landed at Ebon.[/QUOTE]
At least he replaced his companion!
Gives me hope to hear it's possible to survive at sea this long..
My [url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/ghost-ship-nina-missing-for-four-months-in-the-vastness-of-the-pacific-with-seven-crew-presumed-dead-is-this-faint-satellite-image-a-glimmer-of-hope-8887402.html]friend and his family[/url] have been missing at sea for over 7 months now.
[QUOTE=TestECull;43744315]What bittersweet luck landing there. On one hand, hey, rescue. Civilization. TV Dinners. Home! On the other hand, he bumbled into the radioactive remains of the biggest US nuclear tests ever done.
Props on surviving that long, hope he doesn't end up with radioactive decay products in his system while he's there.[/QUOTE]
I'm gonna go ahead and guess the sun probably fucked him far more than that would. Skin cancer ahoy.
I dunno, story seems off. If true, congrats to the guy.
Kon-Tiki 2!
[QUOTE=Sableye;43738988]how the fuck did he get drinking water?[/QUOTE]
He's Mexican, he's used to not being about to drink the water around him.
Take him to the lawnmower store and he'll be fine.
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Never nearly starved to death, have you?
I think the hardest thing for him to adjust to understanding is what the hell doge and dogecoin are
The one thing that kept him alive, when things were at their worst, was the hope the his incredible story would allow him the opportunity to meet his idol* when he recovered.
*Phillip Seymore Hoffman
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;43738200]He's Mexican, though![/QUOTE]
So badass he changed nationalities
Also, this has reminded me of the gentleman that survived something to the tune of three days in a sunken, overturned fishing boat until a diver discovered him on a "body rescue" mission in pitch darkness.
Someone on the thread for it posted it perfect; Imagine swimming through a sunken boat in pitch-black conditions, looking for bodies, when all of a sudden a hand reaches out and grabs you!
Crazy survivors!
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