Posted on 01/23/2009 12:11:22 PM PST by LibWhacker
How do you survive 25 days at sea with nothing but the giant icebox you are floating in? By drinking rainwater and eating fish vomited up by seabirds, apparently.
That is the amazing tale of two Burmese fishermen who were found floating in shark-infested waters off the far North Coast of Australia in a large cooler box.
Ko Ko Oo, 22, and Haung Htaik, 24, were discovered by Australian customs officials floating in the orange-and-white cooler in the Timor Sea, about 60 nautical miles from Thursday Island, northwest of Darwin on the far north central coast of Australia, at the weekend. They said that they had been adrift since December 23 when their wooden fishing boat sank and 18 fellow crew members from Thailand and Burma drowned.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
I’m hearing a lot of buzz this is a hoax.
If they were quick, they had warm meals.
Gee...thanks for that after pasta for lunch visual.....
There seems to be some question about whether they really did or not.
Sorry. It was meant for 0’s right ear area. LOL
I’m sorry. I thought I was responding to a Chia Pet Obama post. I had my scren minimized.
“If they were quick, they had warm meals.”
LOL! Yuck!
“If ya can’t look at a cockroach and eat ‘em...turn ‘em around and back ‘em in!”
Its okay, I’ll have the last of said pasta out of my nose by Sunday afternoon....
Force fed shit surrounded by sharks, pretty comparable to conservatives.
Huh?
“Force fed shit surrounded by sharks, pretty comparable to conservatives.”
What is that all about? You off your med’s or what?
I think he means the situation we now find ourselves in. Pretty apt, i think.
There is no way this story is true. Not a chance. 25 days, they don’t look like htye were in that thing for more than 48 hours. I don’t buy the vomited fish and rainwate3r thing, either. NO WAY!
bmflr
“If ya can’t look at a cockroach and eat ‘em...turn ‘em around and back ‘em in!”<<
Good one.
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