These three guys were lost at sea on this small boat for 10 months, surviving on raw birds, raw fish and collected rain water. They spent most of their time reading a Bible, fishing and praying. [Full story here]
The men lived off speared fish and captured seabirds that landed on their stricken fishing boat. They collected rainwater to drink.
Vidana, Salvador Ordonez, 37, and Lucio Rendon, 27, and two other companions set out from the Mexican port of San Blas on October 28 last year on a shark fishing expedition on a 29-foot (8.8 metre) boat with two outboard motors.
They ran out of fuel. Their companions died within two months because their bodies could not handle the only food there was to eat.
“They could not eat the raw fish and birds,” Ordonez said. “They kept throwing up and eventually they vomited blood.”
Vidana and Rendon gave Ordonez much of the credit for their survival, nicknaming him “El Gato” (The Cat) for the way he crawled up behind and pounced on unwary birds that landed on their boat.
The worst time of the voyage was during December and January, when they were hit by big storms and could catch little to eat.
This is just a sample of the cool stories that I put in that rotating syndicated content section up at the top of the blog, which is still in desperate need of a major redesign.
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Good thing you posted on it because I would have never noticed it up there.
Wait a sec, this is an ad for that thing up top that makes me hurt you whenever I try to click a link and it unexpectedly moves.
haha, you won’t convince me that that thing isn’t a huge waste of pixels. this post just tells me you’ll just post about the really interesting stuff.
Hey, I did say it was in need of a redesign, for that primary reason. I still think it’s a cool idea, though; just need to work on a couple issues, placement being one of the main ones.
I’ll post more about my plans for it soon.
PS - you can always close that if it really bugs you. Or just read the posts via RSS and you’ll never see it, since it doesn’t show up on individual post pages.