I think we may discover that he got the year wrong. I could believe dec 2013, but his skin sure looks good for someone in an open boat.
Well, the interpreter did screw up the name, so it's certainty certainly a possibility.
I think we may discover that he got the year wrong. I could believe dec 2013, but his skin sure looks good for someone in an open boat.
Do we have a medical doctor in the forum?
Could this be bloating from rapid re-hydration or some sort of condition because of a low/no fat/carbohydrate diet? I ask because I've honestly no clue.
There is an AP story out the morning the confirms that he set out from Chiapas, Mexico in November 2012, he was reported missing and a search was undertaken. He is Savadorean and his parents had not spoken to him for 8 years. He apparently used another name in Mexico. Chiapas police or some official have ID'd him as the missing guy.
I can't link to the story but it should be easy to find.
Cpseudonym I'm not a Doctor but I have taken many classes on weigh lost because I am a Ex-Boxer and I have cut large amounts of weigh in a short time to make weigh.
Rapid Re-hydrations can kill you faster then De-hydration. Rapid Re-hydration can send someone into shock then the body drowns from too much water in it's system. Some marathon runners have died by rapid re-hydration after a run, one did not to long ago. I think in the NY or Boston marathon. The runner drank too much water then went into shock and fell out.
The Medic thought the runner was de-hydrated so the pumped even more water into the poor man. Sad story but a true one. In this case, it is clear the 13 month guy did not taken in too much water. From the story and reports he is just having a hard time walking.
If this story is true, the man is one lucky fellow, but I still believe something is wrong here. But that is just me.
Happy cruising
H. Foster
the possibly cheap aluminum props could be gone just from corrosion issues immersed for 16 months.
Anyone got a link to photos of the boat? All the links I have hit have basically been regurgitation of the same text and photos.
His skin sure is fair for being out on the water that long. Even if boat had a cabin, enough UV is bouncing around a boat that you'd get a pretty good tan.
Here is one more for you O.D.
Happy cruising
H. Foster
All doubting aside, seems the guy and the boat did make it from Mexico to the Marshalls. So other than drifting, how else could they have gotten there?
That boat is smaller than I thought. That fish box is not much of a cabin!!
wow I didn't think of that OD. Your right! Lucky number 13!!!
Happy Cruising
H. Foster
I bet you Richard Nixon is rolling in his grave right now, wishing that back in his day, the press was so gullible and having no science background of any sort.
In that stupid long articlei just edged my time reading, they say that he survived by drinking a litre of turtle blood a day and the proof they cite is because its called, "the elixir of life"
What's the salinity of turtle blood, if it's anything like ours, he may as well have been drinking sea water.
Latest I heard was that they suspect he may have made landfall on one the uninhibited islands near there. He may have hung out there for quite some time before setting sail again and ending up where he did.
SO I'm to believe that a drifting boat in the middle of the Pacific is a turtle magnet? Hell, if it's that easy why haven't I found any? I know I'm not in tropical waters but with all my fishing gear I'm lucky to catch a mackerel.