The Doldrums

Douglas Robertson was 18 years old when his yacht was attacked by killer whales. The family all abandoned ship into a small dinghy that was designed for one fewer than the number of people who ended up in it. They were 200 miles from the Galapagos and the wind was going in the wrong direction. But they managed to get some turtles on board and used their blood as soup. Then unfortunately, the water ran very low and they only had the old fish polluted rainwater in the bottom of their dinghy - which wasn't safe to drink. Their nurse mother realized you could absorb it safely through your bottom. And so everyone in the family got a rain-and-torture