His name has not been released, but we can now tell you he is I. M. A. Nutt.
How could he carry enough food and water in a kayak for such a trip?
He should have just climbed into the landing gear of a 737. It’s proven to be a much safer method of crossing the Pacific.
Well he got almost 1/45 of the way there.
Darwin is foiled again.
Coast Guard rescues dumb*ss ping.
“Idiocracy” explained it best. This is why we are screwed. In the good old days, this idiot would have died somewhere a couple miles off the coast. But now he is alive to breed and pollute the gene pool with stupidity for generations to come.
My big trip bucket-item project to do is travel around the world partly by kayak and partly by bicycle, but I’d put a sail on my kayak.
There is a guy who did successfully kayak from CA to HI.
Paddling from California to Hawaii
by Ed Gillette
http://www.legendinc.com/Pages/MarbleheadNet/MM/Articles/EdGillette.html
There have been a few of people who have paddled across the Atlantic, too.
Looking like a castaway Polish man finally reaches land after paddling across the Atlantic on a six-month 6,000 mile journey in a kayak
23APR2014
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2611294/Polish-Kayaker-paddles-Atlantic.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bray
Peter Bray was in 2001, the third person known to cross the Atlantic Ocean alone in a kayak (Franz Romer in 1928 and Hannes Lindemann in 1956 preceded him) but the first one to paddle west to east (i.e.: not riding favorable currents) and also the first one not using sails to help his paddling.
equipment failure = tired arms
If he had taken an infant child along, plenty of Freepers would be defending him, LOL!
I do hope the local tv station does an interview — it should be precious.
I would not want the bill for that rescue.
you would think a lot more people could make it as they could just rest on garbage island.
This is so stupid that he needs to be billed for the rescue. Maybe the article said that. I didn’t read any further than what was posted.
All that water and nothing to drink.
It takes about 5 hours to fly from California to Hawaii.And IIRC it took our flight about 8 hours from Hawaii to Taiwan.Rowing across would probably take longer.