Posted on 09/24/2018 6:12:23 AM PDT by ETL
An Indonesian teenager, who worked on a floating fish trap 80 miles off the country's coast, survived 49 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean with only a Bible, limited rations and a small radio, reports said Monday.
Strong winds during a July storm reportedly snapped the lines keeping Aldi Novel Adilang, a 19-year-old lamp keeper, moored in place. He was helpless and floated off without even a paddle.
“Aldi said he had been scared and often cried when adrift. Every time he saw a large ship, he said he was hopeful, but more than ten ships had passed him, none of them stopped,” Fajar Firdaus, a diplomat, said, according to reports.
Aldi managed to catch fish and drink sea water through clothing in order to filter out some of the salt, The Telegraph reported.
He said through a diplomat that it was frustrating seeing ships in the distance and being unable to get their crews’ attention. He said in an interview that he thought he was going to die, and considered suicide. The Guardian reported that in his darkest times, he consulted the Bible.
He was rescued in late August near Guam, after managing to send a radio frequency to a tanker named Arpeggio on Aug. 31. A friend reportedly once gave him the small frequency radio in the event he gets lost at sea.
But The Telegraph reported that even his rescue was a challenge due to rough waves. Adilang was reportedly forced to jump into the water to reach a line from the ship.
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A “small frequency radio”? /facepalm
I didn’t know $hit creek was so big.
I didn’t think filtering would do anything to sea water, a reverse osmosis shirt?
...without a paddle!
Yeah, I’m trying to grasp that bit about drinking sea water. It’s ... surprising.
You can’t remove salt from sea water by filtering it through a shirt. Maybe something got lost in translation.
Yes. Anybody who spends his life on the sea knows you cannot filter salt out of sea water.
Excuse me for a minute...I accidentally put two teaspoons of sugar in my coffee. I have to go filter out some of the sugar out with my shirt. Be right back.
What, you’ve never heard of short wave radio?
I’ll show myself out.
Upon reaching port his Bible was confiscated by Muslim authorities and he was flogged for committing apostasy against Islam.
Note to self,
Carry a small “Mirror!”
Same here. It’s always been my understanding that accelerates dehydration.
Or a DVD. Dude’s a “lamp keeper,” whatever the hell that is.
The Life of Pai without the tiger.................
Brett Kavanaugh has asked if he can borrow that float trap.....
It rains a lot there................
—yep-—taking this with many grains of salt-—not “filtered” out with a shirt-—
I would imagine that those things had a significant fresh water storage
Maybe he caught rainwater with his shirt.
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