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BajaDQ
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| Quote: | Originally posted by monoloco
It doesn't make sense that he would be missing more than one prop. |
Unless he had the same mechanico work on the lower end of both motors (And got it wrong X2 !!). I think it's possible.
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monoloco
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If it was a panga with more than one motor, there is about a 100% chance they were smuggling drugs.
"The future ain't what it used to be"
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gnukid
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Stories of people surviving being lost at sea reveal that humans can drink some salt water if they can supplement it with fresh water.
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vgabndo
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Igor, if you haven't read "Desperate Journeys Abandoned Souls" it is a remarkable collection of survival at sea, and abandonment stories. I share
your interest and have a read a bunch of that stuff.
After my third time through Robinson Crusoe (I know it was mostly fiction) I arranged to be left on an uninhabited island in the Belizian Caribbean
for 8 days for a taste of the experience. A couple of good campfire stories were spawned by THAT.
There is a long and true history of seamen eating their dead shipmates, and also of not waiting for them to die. The weak, and sub-human might even
have been part of the planning in some cases. The cabin boy and black cook being potential menu items before the start of the voyage. (not my racial
profiling)
Men were also purposefully marooned at sea as punishment. A few survived to add some real horror to the collected stories!
More than one group of survivors has had some pretty metaphysical things to say about the appearance of sea turtles when their lives and blood were a
matter of life or death to those adrift.
You cited Steven Callahan and his 72 days "Adrift". Without his solar stills, and the Dorados which took up residence in the shade of his raft, he'd
have been toast. As it was, if I remember correctly, he hardly lost weight on his slow journey across the Atlantic. Not that it didn't absolutely kick
his butt!
The one thing that I remember of the tale of the three guys who survived for so long in the overturned hull of a trimaran off of New Zealand was how
they fought over a peanut one found that they had been laying on after weeks trapped in the hull. Twin ironies in that story. They drifted in a huge
meander and were discovered near where the storm flipped them, and one of the survivors died not long after his remarkable survival at sea as the
result of an apparently unrelated brain disease.
When you number is up.......
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vgabndo
The cabin boy and black cook being potential menu items before the start of the voyage. (not my racial profiling)
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I believe their Piute Indian guide was the first to go during the Donner Party, so that supports your idea. Of course I don't how they would know that
since nobody survived.
PS. Robinson Crusoe was the first book I read to Alex in Baja. We had nightly readings at San Lucas Cove RV Park. He loved it. I didn't like it as a
child that much though.
[Edited on 2-1-2014 by Skipjack Joe]
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freediverbrian
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I saw a picture of the boat on bloody decks , it is not a panga it is about 25 ft with a small cabin and what looks like straight 6 inboard motor.
[Edited on 2-1-2014 by freediverbrian]
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Certainly something to "chew on" around the campfire
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
| Quote: | Originally posted by vgabndo
The cabin boy and black cook being potential menu items before the start of the voyage. (not my racial profiling)
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I believe their Piute Indian guide was the first to go during the Donner Party, so that supports your idea. Of course I don't how they would know that
since nobody survived.
PS. Robinson Crusoe was the first book I read to Alex in Baja. We had nightly readings at San Lucas Cove RV Park. He loved it. I didn't like it as a
child that much though.
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Actually, quite a few of the Donner Party survived.
http://www.donnerpartydiary.com/survivor.htm
Barry
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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vgabndo
You cited Steven Callahan and his 72 days "Adrift". Without his solar stills, and the Dorados which took up residence in the shade of his raft, he'd
have been toast. As it was, if I remember correctly, he hardly lost weight on his slow journey across the Atlantic. Not that it didn't absolutely kick
his butt!
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If you recall he also fed on triggerfish. Well, that really surprised me. So I did some research and yes, indeed, there are pelagic
triggerfish.
| Quote: | Originally posted by vgabndo
When you number is up.......
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Yep. That's what Timo1 told me as well
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