Adrift eating raw seagulls for 8 months
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Smashed the Baileys' record of 117 days a bit there haven't they!! A pretty mean feat of endurance that, it just goes to show how much the human body and mind can endure. It says there may have been five people on the boat at the start but they may have jumped overboard in the early days, yeah right!! Are they not wondering why the survivors look a little plump and have a bone through their noses?!!
Interesting story there Ditch Monkey, 3 Mexicans in a boat for up to 9 months, with 2 missing, sounds like a good start to a Steven Spielberg movie!
Nice one
Nice one
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Jamie
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I saw ten months mentioned somewhere else. It's simply beyond belief. It's a significant proportion of your entire life. You'd have to include on your CV as an involuntary sabatical!
It makes you wonder why the other two jumped ship after only a couple of days, breaking the first rule of survival by not staying with their vehicle. You would have thought that the fact that one of them was called Jesus would have given them some hope of being rescued.
Does naybody know any recipes for raw seagull.
Good on them though !
Does naybody know any recipes for raw seagull.
Good on them though !
Shewie said:
Yes indeed.
I reckon that the book will make for very interesting reading...Oh, wait a minute, he has one out already, aint he?
Dunno about recipes for raw namesakes.
Once met a guy who had been on one of the hairy Antarctic expeditions..
They had to eat penguins, thus....
Take one live Penguin.
Pull apart at breast.
Stick teeth into breast cavity.
Slurp rapidly.
No mention of Fava beans.
Ceeg
Seagull said:
He's got 2 out the 'old' and the 'new'. If I was these people I would have started to write the book on the boat to keep me occupied. It's a bit weird that the length of time they were drifting for varies so greatly according to different people, and VERY strange that 2 people jumped overboard. Anybody in their right minds would stay on board. What possible chance would you have in the sea?
pretty much none I'd say, not to mention being scared witless about sharks. all seems a bit dodgy to me.......................but even if they were only drifting for a couple of months that's still some ordeal
We're up to a year in that fictional piece of toilet paper- The Mail!
I could do with some seagull recipes after catching a few whilst fishing. They don't half fight well when airborne...
I could do with some seagull recipes after catching a few whilst fishing. They don't half fight well when airborne...
Weeeeehooooooo, Spacemonkey.
I once hauled and landed a cormorant, felt like someone out of a Hemingway nov.
They wouldnt let me weigh it in!
Ceeg
I once hauled and landed a cormorant, felt like someone out of a Hemingway nov.
They wouldnt let me weigh it in!
Ceeg
They were out shark fishing I think so probably had some big nets to cast out and capture them. Failing that they could have used a harpoon gun or a gas bottle and rifle - or is that just in the movies. There wouldn`t be much left of the seagulls though using the gas and rifle technique judging by the mess it made of Jaws, still it would be thoroughly cooked through.
This would kill two birds with one stone (pun intended !!)
This would kill two birds with one stone (pun intended !!)
To catch seagulls:
A piece of cord, and a safety pin tied to the end with lump of bread works well.
Ive heard of a trick by getting bread and wrapping it round a stone then throwing it in the air. Will bring it down for you to dispatch it quickly.
my last seagull trick is to use baking powder but you have to follow the damn thing for a bit. But this one blows their stomach up apparently never used it.
A piece of cord, and a safety pin tied to the end with lump of bread works well.
Ive heard of a trick by getting bread and wrapping it round a stone then throwing it in the air. Will bring it down for you to dispatch it quickly.
my last seagull trick is to use baking powder but you have to follow the damn thing for a bit. But this one blows their stomach up apparently never used it.
I work for a Japanese TV channel and one of the programmes they have on it is News Today Asia, one of the news segments was about this story. The Mexican fisherman have just reached dry land (I think Taipai) after 9 months adrift and they were commenting that there were three fisherman but another two had apparently died of starvation, they said they looked in remarkably good health considering what they'd been through.
My money is still on the cannibalism theory.
My money is still on the cannibalism theory.
Yeah they could be drug runners. Their boat wasn't a small boat, which I intially thought it would be when I heard the story, its actually quite a bit bigger than the average fisherman traller and made mostly of metal. So enough room to haul alot of 'stuff'.
