August 18, 2006

"We took down any bird that landed on our boat and we ate it like that, raw."

Three men survive for 9 months, adrift in the Pacific Ocean in an 8-meter fiberglass boat. (Via BizzyBlog.)

Yes, but it would have been more impressive if they'd had a tiger on board.
Posted by Ann Althouse at 6:26 AM

3 comments:

knox said...

"They Shouldn't Be Alive"

8/18/06, 8:44 AM
amba said...

I wish Yann Martel had just written his transcendently wonderful book and kept his mouth shut. (Well, not completely. I was so stunned by the book I wrote to him, and he wrote back a wonderful postcard.)

8/18/06, 8:46 AM
knox said...

John, you're harshing our mellow here

8/18/06, 9:47 AM

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