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'We drank turtle blood and ate the contents of a shark's stomach':
Daily Mail ^
| 4 May 2016
| Keiligh Baker
Posted on 05/09/2016 7:31:00 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Douglas Robertson was just 18 when he and his family found themselves shipwrecked and adrift in a tiny lifeboat on the Pacific ocean for almost six weeks after their boat sank.
His father, Dougal Robertson, then aged 47, was sailing their boat, the Lucette, from Panama to the Galapagos Islands when it was attacked and sunk by a pod of killer whales on June 15, 1972.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 1972; shipwreck
Just sit right back And you'll hear a tale A tale of a fateful trip, That started from this tropic port, Aboard this tiny ship. The mate was a mighty sailin' man, The Skipper brave and sure. Five passengers set sail that day, For a three hour tour, A three hour tour.
To: artichokegrower
In some restaurants, that would be like $80 a plate
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posted on
05/09/2016 7:31:30 PM PDT
by
ghosthost
To: artichokegrower
Like Robinson Carusoe, it’s primitive as can be.
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posted on
05/09/2016 7:41:36 PM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: artichokegrower
I read the book about their ordeal years ago.
It is one heck of a tale.
http://tinyurl.com/AmazonBooksSurviveTheSavageSea
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posted on
05/09/2016 7:45:09 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate victory. (Recep Erdogan))
To: artichokegrower
I think I’ll pass on tonight’s Seafood Special . I hear the Frog Legs are usually pretty good..... We aren’t anywhere near France, are we? Just asking.”
To: artichokegrower
No phones? No lights? No motorcars? Not a single luxury?
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posted on
05/09/2016 7:45:56 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: artichokegrower
I remember reading the story when I was a kid
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posted on
05/09/2016 7:46:39 PM PDT
by
cyclotic
(Liberalism is what smart looks like to stupid people.)
To: artichokegrower
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posted on
05/09/2016 7:47:22 PM PDT
by
ObamahatesPACoal
(Senator Scott Brown or Governor Pat McCrory for Donald Trump's VP)
To: artichokegrower
Douglas Robertson was just 18?... Sigh, the Age of the Soccer Mom. You can be "just" 8. But you can't be "just" 18. Eighteen means you're a young man, you're not "just" anything. Time to deal with things as a man, not a boy.
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posted on
05/09/2016 7:49:50 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: artichokegrower
Finally after ninety-seven long days adrift Captain Pertwee was rescued, mercifully ending his miserable diet of rainwater and strips of sun dried Haddock which was actually far ghastlier than it sounded what with George Haddock being his former first mate.
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posted on
05/09/2016 8:12:15 PM PDT
by
null and void
("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
To: artichokegrower
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posted on
05/09/2016 8:57:28 PM PDT
by
GraceG
(Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
To: artichokegrower
Killer Whales - the friendly Labradoodles of the sea.
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posted on
05/10/2016 5:55:25 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: artichokegrower
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posted on
05/10/2016 6:04:23 AM PDT
by
pa_dweller
(Go ahead Libs, drink the kool-aid. It's got electrolytes!)
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