This incident took place right offshore our Eastern coast...and I read about it in a Bangkok newspaper!
There is so much lousy journalism in the US papers. Horrible stories. We stopped getting our local paper because it is all drek.
You truly cannot comprehend how really small you are in comparison to the open ocean until you’ve been in a survival raft at sea with nothing but water in every direction. It doesn’t matter how bright the International Orange color appears; even that color is lost in the huge vastness of the ocean.
Utterly ridiculous in this day and age. Personal locator beacons, satellite based, designed expressly for this,, are about 300 bucks. Nobody should spend more than a day or so this way.
I want to hear MORE!
Seaworthy sailboat that is stable upsidedown?
/johnny
“I called him at one point a few days after he left land... and he was a few miles offshore. “
He wasn’t a very experienced sailor and he intentionally planned to go fishing by himself for days?
He had a 35 ft boat and had no way to call for help?
I just don’t understand people like this.
“This is a beautiful world. If everybody would just do the right thing it would be great for all of us. I sure appreciate it, sir,” Frank Jordan said....
I do not believe it. He is lying. Look at his face. No way he was stuck in the open sea for 66 days on an upturned boat. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11513788/US-man-rescued-after-66-days-missing-at-sea.html
I googled search and found the story everywhere:
Yahoo News, NBC, CNN, USAToday, etc., etc.
People say that hurricanes are bad but go through one at sea. It is a whole new experience....
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