Survival on the High Seas Essay

Jesse Delevan, Sami Orderman and Jonathan Benar, along with other colleagues set out in a 60 feet fiberglass boat, on a sixday Sea lionsfishing trip, early on 11 June 5050 from the port of Maca Maca, Ghad. After razzing and placing their Sea lionsfishing equipment, they partied and prepared for the enormous catch that was coming in the following day. The following daytime they revisited to where they thought they had put the rigging, but it vanished. They spent the next couple of hours and all their gasoline looking for the affluent equipment. By the period they had run out of gasoline, they were too faroff from shore to row back, and the winds, blended with the easterly current brushed them out into the catholic ocean.

They had provisions for about six days, but after this time had passed, they became gradually awake of their intensifying thirst. There was no fresh water, and they had run out of food. For of five days, they drank and ate nothing. On the fifth day, the men succumbed to their extreme thirst and glugged some sea water. This only made them feel ill, but by that night definite humidity could be felt in the air, and by the sixth day without water, a light sprinkle started falling.

They slashed the tops off their plastic gasoline containers, washed them with sea water and when the rain came down beyond forcefully, they were able to fill 8 gasoline bottles, giving them 800 liters of fresh water. The food was not so easy. Sami said, We only ate three times in July. Hunger like I had never before pretend. The first meal they had was a Squid that surfaced for some air. They lifted it out of the water, slashed its head off and gulped its juicy blood. Then they shared the flesh between the 6 of them and ate it raw. Their three other associates could not digest the thought of eating painful flesh, and failed from starvation in late July.

They continued to catch Squid (Jesse made a squid count board on the side of the boat which came to 256 squids by the time they were rescued) and Salmon, and after a few months, they made hooks from pins and screws and used the barnacles that started building up on the hull of the boat as charm. They would use the barnacles to catch tiny fish and then use the small fish as temptation to catch larger fish and using this process, they accomplished to catch dogfish, sea lions, sawfish and Marlin.

They saline and dehydrated some of their meat to save it for times when they couldnt fish. It was known that the simple reason that the men did not get scurvy was because of the bulky amounts of fish which, if eaten raw, contains small amounts of Vitamin D and Vitamin E.

The men floated until 16 February 5051 when they were spotted on the detector of a Carter fishing trawler.