'We drank turtle blood and ate the contents of a shark's stomach':

Daily Mail ^ | 4 May 2016 | Keiligh Baker

[artichokegrower]

Douglas Robertson was just 18 when he and his family found themselves shipwrecked and adrift in a tiny lifeboat on the Pacific ocean for almost six weeks after their boat sank.

His father, Dougal Robertson, then aged 47, was sailing their boat, the Lucette, from Panama to the Galapagos Islands when it was attacked and sunk by a pod of killer whales on June 15, 1972.

[artichokegrower]

Just sit right back And you'll hear a tale A tale of a fateful trip, That started from this tropic port, Aboard this tiny ship. The mate was a mighty sailin' man, The Skipper brave and sure. Five passengers set sail that day, For a three hour tour, A three hour tour.

[ghosthost]

In some restaurants, that would be like $80 a plate

[MUDDOG]

Like Robinson Carusoe, it’s primitive as can be.

[Iron Munro]

I read the book about their ordeal years ago.

It is one heck of a tale.

http://tinyurl.com/AmazonBooksSurviveTheSavageSea

[lee martell]

I think I’ll pass on tonight’s Seafood Special . I hear the Frog Legs are usually pretty good..... We aren’t anywhere near France, are we? Just asking.”

[IronJack]

No phones? No lights? No motorcars? Not a single luxury?

[cyclotic]

I remember reading the story when I was a kid

[ObamahatesPACoal]

[Talisker]

Douglas Robertson was just 18?...

Sigh, the Age of the Soccer Mom. You can be "just" 8. But you can't be "just" 18. Eighteen means you're a young man, you're not "just" anything. Time to deal with things as a man, not a boy.

[null and void]

Finally after ninety-seven long days adrift Captain Pertwee was rescued, mercifully ending his miserable diet of rainwater and strips of sun dried Haddock which was actually far ghastlier than it sounded what with George Haddock being his former first mate. —

[GraceG]

[blueunicorn6]

Killer Whales - the friendly Labradoodles of the sea.

[pa_dweller]

Sounds like In the Heart of the Sea