Unbelievable Tales of Shipwreck & SURVIVAL at Sea!

Learning how to survive takes skill, courage, faith, and no small dose of fortune. Here are 9 Unbelievable Tales of Shipwreck & SURVIVAL at Sea! SUBSCRIBE for the latest videos: https://goo.gl/7xzjzR Don't forget to CHECK OUT our latest upload: https://goo.gl/LUB8Xw 9. Jose Salvador Alvarenga Fisherman Jose Salvador Alvarenga had been stranded in the Pacific Ocean for over a year by the time his loved ones saw him again in his home of El Salvador in February 2014. He was 37 years old and had a brutal determination to live when he washed ashore the Marshall Islands after his boat crashed during a fishing trip that had set sail from Mexico. The fisherman was unrecognizable with shaggy hair and a bushy beard when Ebon islanders discovered him some 8,000 miles where his journey began. 8. Tony Bullimore Whoever says candy bars are bad for your health should take a moment to appreciate this remarkable story of survival. Sailor and businessman Tony Bullimore famously survived for four days at sea on a single bar of chocolate alone, after his boat capsized during the solo-round-the-world Vendee Globe race in 1997. 7. Kay Longstaff When a woman plunges off the side of a cruise ship while traveling with her family from Venice, people everywhere begin to speculate on the woman's intentions. After all, representatives for the highly popular cruise ship Norwegian Star, insist there are no known cases of someone acting responsibility to have fallen over the side of a large commercial ship. 6. Louis Jordan When most set out for a fishing trip on a clear day over pristine waters, they never think that day could very well be their last. What should have been a simple voyage for a man named Louis Jordan became a pitiless test of mental strength and endurance lasting two months until his rescue off the US coast in March 2015. The shipwrecked victim was spotted sitting on the upturned hull of his stricken sailboat— a 35-foot vessel called Angel. 5. Filo, Filo, Etueni Nasau, & Samu Pelesa A funeral service commenced with over 500 in attendance, to mourn the death and disappearance of three teenage boys from a small island called Tokelau. At the same time, 500 miles away from their home in between Samoa and Fiji, three emaciated boys eagerly began slurping up seawater— a desperate indicator that an end has come. 4. Tami Oldham Ashcraft Hollywood brought to the big screen this heartbreaking tale of life and death, starring actress Shailene Woodley in the 2018 film Adrift. The harrowing true-story honors Tami Oldham Ashcraft and her fiancé, then 23-year-old Richard Sharp, as they embarked on an adventurous journey turned deadly in the autumn of 1983. Setting off from Tahiti on a boat bound for beautiful San Diego, the couple had sailed head-on into the devastating Hurricane Raymond. 3. Oguri Jukichi Japanese captain Oguri Jukichi holds the Guinness World Record for the longest known time that anyone has survived on a non-moving vessel adrift at sea. Together with one of his sailors, the skipper managed to survive for approximately 484 days after their cargo ship was damaged in a grave storm which hit the Japanese coast in October 1813. The team had been on a voyage from the central city of Toba to what is now Tokyo, yet ended up drifting far out into the Pacific Ocean. 2. Poon Lim When the British merchant ship SS Ben Lomond was torpedoed by a German U-boat in November 1942, there was one sole survivor. Clambering aboard a wooden raft, Chinese sailor Poon Lim had a paltry supply of food and water which he was forced to replenish by fishing, hunting birds, and collecting rainwater throughout his 133-day tryst in the South Atlantic. 1. Steven Callahan If you’re going to build your own boat, you better have qualifications such as inventor, naval architect, and sailor, under your belt. Throw in invincible just for good measure, and you’ve got Steven Callahan— 76-day survivor adrift the Atlantic Ocean on a ruptured life raft. In January 1982, Callahan set sail from the Canary Islands on a small boat he built with his own two hands, yet six days into the trip, the vessel sunk mercilessly into the sea. The castaway was left adrift on a 5-foot life raft with three pounds of food, eight pints of water, a solar sill and makeshift spear.