Gerry
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I remember reading a book about this some time ago. TheRobertson family survived an attack from Orcas back in the 70's Cornish family was sunk by killer whales and stranded in dinghy
Extraordinary tale of survival
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AntarcticPilot
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The book is "Survive the Savage Sea", and it's one of the classic survival stories. Dougal Robertson (I think) was the author.
mjcoon
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Yes indeed. The fly-sheet says the incident was on 15 June 1972. With wife, sons aged 1x18 + 2x12, plus student friend of theirs. ISBN 0 236 15461 3.
fredrussell
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If you like that sort of thing I strongly recommend my forthcoming book “Nearly Nibbled to Death by Seahorses”. Out soon on Penguin Classics. I can’t reveal too much as Spielberg has acquired the rights, but it details a horrific incident I had whilst anchored at Studland bay a few years back.
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Tranona
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Maurice and Maralyn Bailey Worth a read. Also involved a whale. Maurice and Maralyn Bailey - Wikipedia
When they gave up sailing they ran Yot Grot (think that was the name) a secondhand chandlery shop by the bridge in Lymington. They sold a QME wind vane steering for me (all of £20!). They gave up when Maralyn got ill in the early 2000s and the site became a used car dealership of sorts.
When they gave up sailing they ran Yot Grot (think that was the name) a secondhand chandlery shop by the bridge in Lymington. They sold a QME wind vane steering for me (all of £20!). They gave up when Maralyn got ill in the early 2000s and the site became a used car dealership of sorts.
oldharry
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Wasnt dressed in black neoprene by any chance? There has been a largeish predator reported there for a number of years, hiding under boats and trying to eat anchors.... Makes one wnoder whether thats where the Orcas got their funny ideas about boat rudders.
Dellquay13
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Is it the one where they survive by eating turtles and have regular enemas performed by the wife who was a nurse?
mjcoon
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I don't remember that much detail, and had not intended to read it again. These days, of course, a shipwrecked family with their satphone could add all sorts of excruciating detail to their vlog...
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Yes.
Dellquay13
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The image of family based enema sessions in a small boat in the middle of the Pacific has formed its own peculiar and uncomfortable nook in my memory
Bandit
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I read it when young, I was never able to look at an Avon Dinghy pump in the same way afterwards!
arcot
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And now Quench Sea provides RO water for less than. 100 pounds and a new seawater RO filter is 40 pounds.
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Mine arrived today.... a little ugly but 1/10 th price of Katadyne 40 and even the KATADYNE 06
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Mine arrived today.... a little ugly but 1/10 th price of Katadyne 40 and even the KATADYNE 06
Buck Turgidson
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Can you do us a favour and pump a litre of water? I would be interested to know how long it takes and how much physical effort is involved.
AntarcticPilot
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To be a fair test of its utility in a survival situation. the test should be done in a liferaft with a floppy base. When portable units of this nature first came out, I recall that tests suggested that you'd sweat more than a litre of water while pumping to get a litre.
Water isn't the only issue in situations like those of the Robertsons and the Baileys - in neither case was water the ultimate limiting factor (in fact, the Robertsons survived despite the loss of several litres of fresh water through an accident); rainfall and liquids from the tissues of fish kept dehydration at bay. The problem was that a steady protein-rich diet with few carbohydrates isn't good for human metabolism in the long run, and results in loss of body weight and muscle deterioration. No doubt the doctors on here can give chapter and verse. But in both the well-documented cases, it was dietary issues that were likely to be the killers, not dehydration. Despite having an adequate quantity of food (mainly from fish and turtles) both the Baileys and the Robertsons were seriously malnourished when rescued.
Kelpie
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Very interesting. I wonder if you could use the guts of it to make a motorised version.
Zagato
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Hang on... can we back track here? "Yellow turtle oil was used for administering enemas" ... WHAT!
Can somebody please explain the purpose of this because a whole family giving themselves enemas sounds kinda perverse
It's not in any survival book I know...
Can somebody please explain the purpose of this because a whole family giving themselves enemas sounds kinda perverse
It's not in any survival book I know...
Kelpie
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I think the idea is that your body can absorb water without taking up the salt, if it is administered via the, erm, back door.Hang on... can we back track here? "Yellow turtle oil was used for administering enemas" ... WHAT!
Can somebody please explain the purpose of this because a whole family giving themselves enemas sounds kinda perverse
It's not in any survival book I know...
No personal experience, I hasten to add!
fisherman
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Your large bowel absorbs water from waste unless you have the squits and it passes too quickly, hence squit related dehydration.