2. Steven Callahan
Steven Callahan was sailing a 22 foot sailboat, that he’d designed in 1981, from the eastern United States across the Atlantic.
As he was heading from Spain to the Bahamas he ran into bad weather. Sometime during the night of January 6th, 1982 he struck what he believes to be a whale and his boat began taking on water.
Before it went under, Callahan was able to grab a life raft, an emergency kit and a solar still to make freshwater from saltwater through evaporation.
He survived for 76 days through terrible conditions. Callahan drifted over 1800 miles when he finally got within sight of Guadalupe Island and swam to shore.
via CHATINMANHATTAN
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