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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.
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 ...
Poon Lim BEM (Chinese: 潘濂; pinyin: Pān Lián; 8 March 1918 – 4 January 1991) was a Chinese seafarer.He was born on the island of Hainan, China.In 1942–43, he survived 133 days alone in the South Atlantic.
Steven Callahan (born February 6, 1952) is an American author, naval architect, inventor, and sailor. In 1981, he survived for 76 days adrift on the Atlantic Ocean in a liferaft.
Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost At Sea is a 1986 memoir by Steven Callahan about his survival alone in a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean, which lasted 76 days. [ 1 ] Sailing
Aleix Segura i Vendrell (born 28 November 1986, Barcelona) is a Spanish multiple World Champion freediver [1] both under AIDA and CMAS official structures. Through spearfishing he developed his apnea skills and started competing in apnea (freediving) in 2011, reaching in competition during his debut year breath holds over eight minutes, and over ten minutes in the following seasons so far, [2 ...
The title of the world’s oldest person now belongs to Inah Canabarro Lucas, who is also 116 years old. She was born on June 8, 1908, in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She was born two weeks after ...
He completed his second solo circumnavigation of the world in the yacht Saga Insurance on 4 May 2007, finishing in fourth place in the Velux 5 Oceans Race. [13] At 68, he was the oldest competitor in the race. [14] In late 2008 and early 2009, Knox-Johnston took part in a BBC programme called Top Dogs: Adventures in War, Sea and Ice.