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International News
Fishermen survive 59 days at sea
9:00 AM June 12
Three Peruvian shark fishermen lost at sea for 59 days reportedly survived by eating turtle meat and drinking the reptiles' blood.
The men set out on March 25 in the Pacific Ocean in a fishing boat without radio equipment.
They soon ran out of food and turned to eating turtles caught from the boat, El Comercio reports.
The sailors tried drinking the water in the radiator of the ship's engine but quickly realised it was toxic and turned to turtle blood instead.
"Thanks to training on a survival course, we also knew how to heat salt water to give us half a litre of drinking water every day," fisherman Manuel Ramirez told El Comercio.
An Ecuadorean ship rescued the men about 1,125 kilometres from the Peruvian coast on May 23.
Each had lost 10 kilograms, the paper said.
Source: Reuters
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Oh heres one Harry M Miller should sign on to his books...
Why would you go out that far without bloody radio equipment...
A better question is...WHY THE HELL would you drink turtle blood if you knew how to make water????????Originally Posted by MY-TopEnder
They could only make half a litre of water a day......nowhere near enough to survive.
cheers
kev
SEE GUYS ...
no mention of that green ginger wine crap saving them - you'll have to find a new excuse for taking it
BTW
isn't Peru in the Ande mountains ???
No! The Andes Mountains are in Peru :-)
kev
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