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I may have missed this, but how did Mr. V.P. manage for water?

Blood, yes: also good for salt replacement, but in the long term?

Basic distillation from seawater? (Thinking plastic bottles and black bags?) ?

Curiously,

John Germain


> ** Original Subject: Re: Survival At Sea
> ** Original Sender: Peter Fogg 
> ** Original Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 00:22:44 +0100

> ** Original Message follows...

>
> Later in the day I heard that he had been living on his boat in LA. At 62, his
> chances of getting another boat (= life, in his case, maybe) would seem minimal,
> which is why he may have been better off with a little practical help, as he
> requested, rather than having his boat scuttled.
>
> Brian Whatcott wrote:
>
> > At 06:23 PM 9/25/02, you wrote:
> > >... the news story on the Los Angeles sailor in his
> > >26' boat who went for a short sail and 3 months later was found adrift but in
> > >fine form off the coast of Costa Rica. This morning on 2 channels heard the
> > >same story, accompanied by pictures and film of interview with Mr Van Pham,
> > >on Sydney TV. Maybe its a slow news day but in any case its a great story.
> > >When he was rescued he had up a jury-rigged sail, meals for the future were
> > >perched, still alive and waiting (sea-birds) on his improvised bowsprit,  his
> > >only problem for the medium term seemed to be running out of wooden bits of
> > >his boat to burn for fuel! Have to wonder whether he wasn't better off out
> > >there than back in LA with no boat and no family or friends (apparently).
> >
> > The crew that resued him from his extended day trip to Catalina Island,
> > were so taken with his survival spirit, they took up
> > a collection of a few hundred bucks to help him with his next transition.
> > They said his first impulse was to ask for help in fixing up his vessel so
> > he could sail back himself. They talked him into scuttling the craft.
> >
> > (NPR radio report)
> >
> > Brian Whatcott
> >    Altus OK                      Eureka!


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