Do you believe the lost fisherman story?

[MonsterD]

I'm sure most of you have heard it, this guy gets adrift in the ocean working as a fisherman with a kid who was 18. After months the kid dies because he can't handle eating the raw wildlife to survive and this guy lasts 13 months adrift 6000 miles from close to Mexico.

So I see a ton of people commenting there is no way and too many people are gullible to believe someone can survive that long at sea in a small boat.

I understand the guy wasn't completely emaciated and he was not tan, but there can be reasoning behind that, so if everything is checking to be true so far why is everyone so skeptical?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...onths_is_found_6_000_miles_from_where_he.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...onths_is_found_6_000_miles_from_where_he.html

 

[RastaRocket]

Everything I heard seems to be checking out so far. I have no reason not to believe it.

 

[Tabascocat]

It is entirely possible. I have read/heard several survival stories since last May. My sisters really close friend has a missing daughter on the American schooner Nina. Her name is Danielle Wright and we are still holding out what hope is left. The money has all but ran out with no more help from the government in the search.

 

[Rockport]

The story goes the other guy died because he wouldn't eat raw fish. That showed me this is a hoax of some sort. Anyone faced with death is gonna eat anything he can.

 

[MonsterD]

The story goes the other guy died because he wouldn't eat raw fish. That showed me this is a hoax of some sort. Anyone faced with death is gonna eat anything he can.

His body couldn't tolerate it, he rejected the raw food, threw it up.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

It is entirely possible. I have read/heard several survival stories since last May. My sisters really close friend has a missing daughter on the American schooner Nina. Her name is Danielle Wright and we are still holding out what hope is left. The money has all but ran out with no more help from the government in the search.

I remember reading about and seeing the story on NBC Nightly News, about the Nina last June, about 3 weeks after the last contact from her. That section of ocean, the Tasman Sea, is notorious for bad weather that time of year, especially since it's winter in that part of the globe.

I recall reading where the Australians initially put out one of the largest search efforts they've ever mounted, but their deadline past and neither they or the New Zealand gov continue.

I also saw the article about the satellite image from the NY Daily News.

Satellite images show possible ghost ship that may be missing American yacht

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

The story goes the other guy died because he wouldn't eat raw fish. That showed me this is a hoax of some sort. Anyone faced with death is gonna eat anything he can.

I'm guessing the survivor ate the guy.

 

[Tabascocat]

I remember reading about and seeing the story on NBC Nightly News, about the Nina last June, about 3 weeks after the last contact from her. That section of ocean, the Tasman Sea, is notorious for bad weather that time of year, especially since it's winter in that part of the globe.

I recall reading where the Australians initially put out one of the largest search efforts they've ever mounted, but their deadline past and neither they or the New Zealand gov continue.

I also saw the article about the satellite image from the NY Daily News.

Satellite images show possible ghost ship that may be missing American yacht

Yea, saw that too. That was awhile ago though

 

[Hoofbite]

The story goes the other guy died because he wouldn't eat raw fish. That showed me this is a hoax of some sort. Anyone faced with death is gonna eat anything he can.

Including a shipmate who, as luck would have it, happened to die to an unverifiable yet irrefutable manner.

He chose not to eat. So I did.

 

[Hoofbite]

His body couldn't tolerate it, he rejected the raw food, threw it up.

His mind couldn't tolerate it.

 

[Rockport]

His body couldn't tolerate it, he rejected the raw food, threw it up.

Riiiiiight.

 

[MonsterD]

Riiiiiight.

Ok I get it this a sticking point for you guys. To me that is peculiar almost bordering on fantastical, but would love to hear any doctor's opinions on it.

 

[Rockport]

Ok I get it this a sticking point for you guys. To me that is peculiar almost bordering on fantastical, but would love to hear any doctor's opinions on it.

Yea, I don't buy the body refused the raw fish. Millions, heck billions of people eat raw fish every day. I just had some sushi myself. I've also eaten it on the boat after catching. He would have had to have been sick for his body to repulse it.

 

[MonsterD]

Yea, I don't buy the body refused the raw fish. Millions, heck billions of people eat raw fish every day. I just had some sushi myself. I've also eaten it on the boat after catching. He would have had to have been sick for his body to repulse it.

I agree that he could have had a condition, dehydration seems very plausible, gallbladder condition,etc. But some people who are use to a certain standard of food can't handle a change. If I went to the slums in India and just started eating what they eat I would be throwing up left and right no matter how delicious the food is.

 

[StarMan2112]

I call BS. The guy looks too fat to have lived on raw fish for 13 months. And what about water? I don't think a person could survive on limited rainwater and turtle blood for that long.

 

[Tabascocat]

The kid was voted off the boat by another mans starvation.............

 

[rynochop]

I call BS. The guy looks too fat to have lived on raw fish for 13 months. And what about water? I don't think a person could survive on limited rainwater and turtle blood for that long.

i wouldnt think blood would be a good substitute for water, idk. it says the climate is hot and humid, typhoons form in that area,etc. maybe he got enough rainwater.

 

[Future]

How does anyone believe him I think is the better question.

The guy probably landed on some island and just didn't want to go home or something lol He's been drinking tequila and partying.

 

[Rockport]

I agree that he could have had a condition, dehydration seems very plausible, gallbladder condition,etc. But some people who are use to a certain standard of food can't handle a change. If I went to the slums in India and just started eating what they eat I would be throwing up left and right no matter how delicious the food is.

Yea, but raw fish? I don't think so.

 

[MonsterD]

It is entirely possible. I have read/heard several survival stories since last May. My sisters really close friend has a missing daughter on the American schooner Nina. Her name is Danielle Wright and we are still holding out what hope is left. The money has all but ran out with no more help from the government in the search.

Saw this recent article on it. http://news.yahoo.com/us-parents-comb-pacific-sign-lost-daughter-080939171.html