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Endurance In Extremity (Tales Of Stubborn Survival Or Persistence)

"According to their account they then set out in an attempt to reach the Cook Islands 1,000 miles away, but another storm killed off their engine at the end of May.

But the US Coast Guard said they made radio contact with a vessel identifying itself as the Sea Nymph in June near Tahiti, and the captain said they were not in distress and expected to reach land the next morning.

That was after the women reportedly lost their engines and sustained damage to their rigging and mast."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...t-sea-five-months-did-not-activate-emergency/

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I'm no mariner, but that mast looks OK to me.

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Five months of terror on low rations, expecting to die daily? She's fatter than the female sailors behind them who have access to a 24/7/365 galley!

Am I alone in hearing the phrases "book deal", "movie rights" and "gallant lesbians triumph over [self-inflicted] adversity"?

maximus otter
 
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Am I alone in hearing the phrases "book deal", "movie rights" and "gallant lesbians triumph over [self-inflicted] adversity"?
Well I was trying to figure out what they could possibly have been up to but it is all very odd. I am not sure how you could guarantee to get yourselves book deals etc.
 
I am not sure how you could guarantee to get yourselves book deals etc.

Aron Ralston was a complete fucking muppet. He went rock climbing with no 'phone, having told no one where he was going, and carrying little water and no food apart from two burritos. He got himself trapped for almost a week, and had to cut off his own arm with an economy multitool. Result? Book and film (127 Hours).

maximus otter
 
Aron Ralston was a complete fucking muppet. He went rock climbing with no 'phone, having told no one where he was going, and carrying little water and no food apart from two burritos. He got himself trapped for almost a week, and had to cut off his own arm with an economy multitool. Result? Book and film (127 Hours).

maximus otter
And one arm fewer than he started with.

Still, if you are being a muppet deliberately you needn't go so far as to gnaw your own arm off. But then would anyone buy the book or watch the film? Maybe these women didn't have anything else to do and thought it was worth a try?
 
Aron Ralston was a complete fucking muppet. He went rock climbing with no 'phone, having told no one where he was going, and carrying little water and no food apart from two burritos. He got himself trapped for almost a week, and had to cut off his own arm with an economy multitool. Result? Book and film (127 Hours).

maximus otter
I enjoyed the film, actually. But all the way through it I kept thinking 'what an idiot'.
 
Idiots who decide to climb Ben Nevis in shorts and flip flops in December (and their ilk) should have to pay the emergency services for rescuing them. They may think twice before acting like irresponsible idiots if the knew they had to pay for their rescue because of their recklessness. It could come out of their royalties from book sales.
 
Also hard to believe "they endured a tiger shark attack" whilst on the boat unless the sharks were of the flying variety.
 
Also hard to believe "they endured a tiger shark attack" whilst on the boat unless the sharks were of the flying variety.

It might be easier to believe "they endured a tiger attack". Or was that Life of Pi?
 
Would three cats have been as helpful?

A Canadian dog walker could not have survived over two days in the wilderness without the help of her border collie, a boxer and a puggle.

Annette Poitras, 56, was walking the three dogs on Monday in the British Columbia backcountry when she fell, injured herself and lost her phone.

She was rescued on Wednesday afternoon after a long hunt by Coquitlam search and rescue.

Her husband says the three dogs helped Poitras stay alive during the ordeal.

Marcel Poitras told Global News that his wife and the dogs - a collie called Chloe, a boxer named Roxy, and Bubba, a pug-beagle mix - took care of each other over two days and two nights, with no supplies and periods of "torrential" rain.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42101456
 
Lucky to get away with minor frostbite.

An Australian climber who survived nearly seven days in freezing conditions on a New Zealand mountain has been airlifted to safety, rescuers say.

Terry Harch, 29, was reported missing on Monday after failing to return from a hike at Mt Aspiring, near Wanaka.

Rescuers found him on Thursday, saying it was "extraordinary" that he was able to stand and wave to a helicopter.

Lt Harch had endured freezing winds of up to 60km/h (37 mph) and heavy snow.

"We think he dug himself a snow dug-out shelter and that's helped in his survivability over these last few days," rescue co-ordinator Geoff Lunt told Radio New Zealand.

The man was found in a "reasonably good condition" and was suffering only from "minor frostbite".

He was rescued during a brief spell of good weather at 15:35 local time (03:35 GMT) on Friday.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-45053876?ocid=socialflow_twitter
 
Seven weeks at sea in a hut.

An Indonesian teenager who survived 49 days on the ocean after his wooden hut was pushed out to sea by strong winds has been reunited with his family.

Aldi Novel Adilang, 19, was plucked from the ocean by a cargo ship near the US territory of Guam in the western Pacific Ocean on 31 August.

He had been working as a keeper on a floating fish trap called a rompong, anchored to the seabed around 75 miles off the Indonesian coast, when unusually strong winds broke his mooring ropes on 19 July, sending the wooden hut adrift.

Despite lacking paddles or sails and only equipped with a week’s worth of food, gas and drinking water, the 19-year-old was able to survive for seven weeks lost at sea.

http://www.theweek.co.uk/96660/teen...letter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
 
Would a cat have kept him from freezing?

A pensioner has survived three weeks in the Siberian wilderness with only his trusted dog to keep him from freezing.

The relatives of 65-year-old Viktor Vinogradov feared the worst when he didn't come back from a mushroom-picking outing with only his dog Thor for company, not far from the family summer house in Krasnoyarsk region, the Rossiya TV channel reports.

The local authorities and more than 200 volunteers scoured miles of forest, but found no trace of either man or dog. Last week his distraught daughter Tatiana said the search was over.

But then four days later, Mr Vinogradov phoned home. He was alive, if a lot thinner, and waiting for them with Thor near the village of Kuskun - more than 20 km (12 miles) from where he'd set off.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-45967748
 
They can also make a tasty meal.
 
Lucky for her that those cows strayed.

A woman has been found alive six days after her car crashed and landed on top of a tree in the Arizona desert.

The 53-year-old, who has not been named, lost control while driving on the US 60 highway near Wickenburg, north of Phoenix, before crashing through a gate.

Police say the car plunged 50ft (15m) and landed in a mesquite tree, where it "remained suspended above the ground".

She survived on grass and water during the ordeal, police said.

An Arizona highway maintenance team were guiding stray cows when they noticed a damaged fence followed by the car stuck on top of a tree, rescuers said.

A team of rescuers then found the woman by following "human tracks" leading towards a river bed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46057076
 
Only three days but still.

A woman in Manhattan got stuck in an elevator Friday evening – and wasn't rescued until Monday morning.

According to HuffPost, the unidentified woman was cleaning a five-story townhouse in the Upper East Side of Manhattan when she became trapped in the elevator between the 2nd and 3rd floor. The homeowners were out of town for the entire weekend, the elevator didn't have a phone, and apparently she didn't have a cell phone on her.

Finally, on Monday morning, one of the homeowners came home, realized what had happened and called 911. Firefighters broke into the elevator around 10am, rescued the woman, and sent her to the hospital. Miraculously, she's in good condition.

https://boingboing.net/2019/01/28/woman-finally-rescued-after-th.html
 
Only three days but still.

A woman in Manhattan got stuck in an elevator Friday evening – and wasn't rescued until Monday morning.

According to HuffPost, the unidentified woman was cleaning a five-story townhouse in the Upper East Side of Manhattan when she became trapped in the elevator between the 2nd and 3rd floor. The homeowners were out of town for the entire weekend, the elevator didn't have a phone, and apparently she didn't have a cell phone on her.

Finally, on Monday morning, one of the homeowners came home, realized what had happened and called 911. Firefighters broke into the elevator around 10am, rescued the woman, and sent her to the hospital. Miraculously, she's in good condition.

https://boingboing.net/2019/01/28/woman-finally-rescued-after-th.html

Oooh, reminds one of any number of fillums and stories!
Was recently rewatching Tales of the Unexpected, which features a lift. There's also the fillum Devil.
 
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