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Steven Callahan: 76 Days of Ocean Survival | Lost at Sea

In January 1982, yachtsman Steven Callahan 30 y.o. departed one of Canary Islands on the Napoleon Solo, a 6.5-meter (21.3-foot) sloop he designed and built himself. He headed for Antigua when he dropped out of the race in La Coruña, Spain. In a growing gale, seven days out he's vessel was badly holed by an unknown object. By the way, in his book, Callahan writes that he suspects the damage occurred from a collision with a whale. During a night storm and became swamped, although it didn't sink outright due to watertight compartments Callahan had designed into the boat. Unable to stay aboard Napoleon Solo as it filled with water and was overwhelmed by breaking seas, Callahan escaped into a six-person Avon inflatable life raft, measuring about six feet across. He stood off in the raft, but managed to get back aboard several times to dive below and retrieve a piece of cushion, a sleeping bag, and an emergency kit containing, among other things, some food, navigation charts, a short spear gun, flares, torch, solar stills for producing drinking water and a copy of Sea Survival, a survival manual. Before dawn, a big breaking sea parted the life raft from Napoleon Solo and Callahan drifted away. The raft drifted westward with the South Equatorial Current and the trade winds. After exhausting the meager food supplies he had salvaged from the sinking sloop, Callahan survived by catching food. He mainly ate mahi-mahi and triggerfish which he speared, along with flying fish, barnacles and birds that he captured. The sea life was all part of an ecosystem that followed him for 3300 km across the ocean. He collected drinking water from two solar stills and various jury-rigged devices for collecting rainwater, which together produced on average just over a pint of water per day. Callahan's use of an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon and many flares didn't trigger a rescue. There is was not monitored by satellites at the time, and he was in too empty a part of the ocean to be heard by aircraft. Ships didn't spot his flares. While adrift, he spotted nine ships, most in the two sea lanes he crossed, but from the beginning, Callahan knew that he couldn't rely upon rescue but instead must, for an undetermined time, rely upon himself and maintaining a shipboard routine for survival. He routinely exercised, navigated, prioritized problems, made repairs, fished, improved systems, and built food and water stocks for emergencies. On the eve of April 20, 1982, he spotted lights on the island of south east of Guadeloupe. The next day, on Callahan's 76th day float in the raft, fisherman picked him up just offshore, drawn to him by birds hovering over the raft, which were attracted by the ecosystem that had developed around it. During the ordeal, he faced sharks, raft punctures, equipment deterioration, physical deterioration and menthal stress. Having lost a third of his weight and being covered with scores of saltwater sores, he was taken to a local hospital for an afternoon, but left that evening and spent the following weeks recovering on the island and while hitchhiking on boats up through the West Indies. During his journey, Callahan experienced a few positive elements aside from suffering, describing the night sky at one point as "a view of heaven from a seat in hell". He still enjoys sailing and the sea, which he calls the world's greatest wilderness. Since his survival drift, he's made dozens of additional offshore passages and ocean crossings, most of them with no more than two other crew. In the making of the 2012 movie Life of Pi, director Ang Lee asked Callahan to be a consultant on living aboard a life raft. Callahan made lures and other tools seen in the movie. Callahan recounted his ordeal in the best-selling book Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea (1986) #survivalstories #stevencallahan #shortdocumentary Timecodes 0:00 76 days in ocean 1:47 Steven Callahan interview 4:00 Hardships of life at sea 5:01 Miraculous salvation