Tuesday, May 28, 2013

FIVE AGAINST THE SEA




FIVE AGAINST THE SEA


FIVE AGAINST THE SEA


It was January 19, 1988. The waters were calm and the skies cloudless as five fishermen set off on a week-long trip off the Costa Rican coast. Five days later, their twenty-nine-foot wooden craft was foundering against thirty-foot waves as a dreaded north wind - El Norte - struck with full force. Set adrift in a badly leaking vessel, they faced the perils of more storms, shark attacks, near-madness, a mutiny, and bouts of starvation and thirst. Continuously bailing, the five men endured a record 142 days lost at sea - until they were rescued 4,500 miles across the Pacific ... Read more


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