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José Salvador Alvarenga (Spanish: [xoˈse salβaˈðoɾ alβaˈɾeŋɡa]; born c. 1975) is a Salvadoran fisherman and author who was found on January 30, 2014, aged 36 or 37, [nb 1] on the Marshall Islands after spending 14 months adrift in a fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean beginning on November 17, 2012.
By April 1943, Lim realized that he was nearing land, as the color of the sea was no longer a deep ocean blue. He had drifted westward about 750 miles (1,210 km). On 5 April three Brazilian fishermen found him, about 9 nautical miles (16 km) off the coast of Pará, east of Salinas. He was the sole survivor from Benlomond.
Ross Edgley (born 13 October 1985) is a British athlete, ultra-marathon sea swimmer and author. He holds multiple world records, but is perhaps most recognised for completing the World's Longest Staged Sea Swim in 2018, [3] when he became the first person in history to swim 1,780 miles (2,860 km) [4] around Great Britain, in 157 days [4] (voted Performance of the Year by the World Open Water ...
The sea life was all part of an ecosystem that evolved around his raft and followed him for 1,800 nautical miles (3,300 km) across the ocean. He collected drinking water from two solar stills (the third of which he had cut open in order to know how to use them) and various jury-rigged devices for collecting rainwater , which together produced ...
The Baileys wrote an account of their ordeal entitled 117 Days Adrift (published with the title Staying Alive! in the United States), which was published in 1974 by Adlard Coles Nautical. Alvaro Cerezo interviewed Maurice Bailey and wrote an article "117 Days Adrift" about the Baileys' experience, followed up by an eight-minute short film ...
An Australian sailor and his dog have been found alive after being stranded in the Pacific Ocean for two months. In April, Tim Shaddock, a 51-year-old from Sydney, Australia, and his dog, Bella ...
Herbert Nitsch (born 20 April 1970) is an Austrian freediver, the current freediving world record champion, and "the deepest man on earth" [1] having dived to a depth of 253.2 meters (831 feet).
On 20 February 2015, she obtained a Yachtmaster Ocean Certificate (also becoming the youngest person to do so in the process). [66] She has been working towards doing long-distance educational sailings with children. She founded Laura Dekker World Sailing Foundation. [67] She obtained a 21 meter long ship (named Guppy). In November 2020 Dekker ...