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http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl General Discussion >> Technically Speaking >> Survival at sea http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1232415442 Message started by tallowood on Jan 20^th, 2009 at 11:37am

Title: Survival at sea
Post by tallowood on Jan 20^th, 2009 at 11:37am

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two Burmese men say they drifted in a large fishing esky for nearly a month before they were found by a Coastwatch plane in the Torres Strait.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/20/2469606.htm?section=justin

Years ago I've read a book by Garcia Marquez about Colombian sailor who was washed overboard during great storm and lived ten days on a life raft without fresh water and food but the survival in esky is better, IMHO.
Does anybody know other stories of survival at sea?

Title: Re: Survival at sea
Post by locutius on Jan 20^th, 2009 at 3:34pm

Typical, visitors show up with an empty esky.

Title: Re: Survival at sea
Post by freediver on Jan 20^th, 2009 at 3:38pm

Is it true that you can survive by drinking small amounts of seawater, provided you start early?

Title: Re: Survival at sea
Post by tallowood on Jan 20^th, 2009 at 4:25pm

There was a French doctor who cross Atlantic in a small rowing boat without having fresh water back in 1960s. He did some other experiments of this kind to work out methodology of sea survival in adverse conditions sort of like Australian "bush tucker man" except in more extreme conditions. I think his name was Allen Bompar. His conclusion was that people at sea die not from hunger or thirst but from fear of unknown. He drunk sea water.