Holes emerge in Hawaii women's tale of survival in the Pacific

foxnews.com ^ | 10/31/17 | fox/ap

[ColdOne]

When they said they had food for a year in that small boat is when the lost me a little.

[Fiddlstix]

Looking for their 15 minutes of fame.

[GRRRRR]

It’s a 50 footer. They stored mostly rice, beans and dry goods. There is a large amount of storage space on these boats.

They appear to be poor sailors. They had a main and jib they could have used.

[BenLurkin]

I wonder what their husbands think about what happened.

[Jim W N]

Two dykes in a dingy.

[dfwgator]

They ate tacos to survive.

[MichaelCorleone]

Their story has to be true; women don’t ever lie...do they?

[angcat]

LOL if I post this on facebook I will get my usual 30 day suspension.

[editor-surveyor]

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“For a 3 hour tour...”
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[Robert DeLong]

It could be possible, but highly unlikely, that they were unaware of that lifesaving device. Dedication?

[Gamecock]

Must have been looking for some ink in Astonishing Tales of the Sea, Volume II.

[Jim W N]

Yeah, apparently there was a taco truck on a barge nearby.

[Sacajaweau]

Why in God’s name would they have food for a year?

[deport]

I wonder what their husbands think about what happened.

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What husbands?

[miniTAX]

I understand now where the term “fishy” comes from.

[wally_bert]

Sounds like a low budget porn movie.

[Jim W N]

Suspension from Facebook - a badge of honor.

[MplsSteve]

“They ate tacos to survive.”

Ewwwwwwwwwww........!

[WKUHilltopper]

I thought there was something wrong with this story when I first heard it. They were on a sail boat...on a 1,500 mile trip. Regardless if the engine went out, they didn’t know how to sail? On a huge ocean? Yeah, right...plans for a book sounds like to me.

Who goes on a 1,500 mile ocean and doesn’t know how to sail?? Told my wife the story was BS when I heard it.

[Flick Lives]

She said that in her experience, it should be used only when you are in imminent physical danger and going to die in the next 24 hours.

“Our hull was solid, we were floating, we had food, we had water, and we had limited maneuverable capacity,” Appel said in Japan, where the U.S. Navy took them. “All those things did not say we are going to die. All that said, it’s going to take us a whole lot longer to get where we’re going.”

However, just hours earlier, Appel appeared to contradict herself by claiming her scenario was a life or death situation.

“Had [the USS Ashland] not been able to locate us, we would have been dead within 24 hours,” she told reporters in Okinawa on Monday, adding that they were both extremely grateful for the men and women of the USS Ashland.

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Someone’s anchor has gone adrift.