Science of Survival: Adrift
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The Most Time Spent Adrift
In 1972, Scottish sailor Dougal Robertson and his family survived for 38 days at sea in a small dinghy after killer whales sunk their schooner near the Galapagos Islands. In 2012, Jose Alvarenga, an El Salvadoran fisherman working in Mexico, was swept out to sea by a storm and survived 438 days alone in a small boat,. eating fish and drinking turtle blood. Japanese sailor Oguri Jukichi and two of his crew hold the record for the most time spent adrift. They drank rainwater and ate the soybeans in their cargo hold before succumbing to scurvy.
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