Actually, the military should hire this guy to talk at some survival school for a while, mostly about keeping the spirits and will to live up. I took 43 days to go solo from Panama to Hawaii (Great El Nino, trade winds gone again, I got it both ways!) and you can get VERY bummed out, and that's on a boat making progress with radios, CDs, books, good food etc.
How this guy kept himself from "going for a swim" during a low point is the real story of this epic to me. He must have had a great source of inner strength, or maybe he "just wouldn't let the sea beat him".
Any way, I salute one tough old SOB.