the sad story of people who are stranded in remote places

Of course no one wants the occurrence of accidents while traveling far. Let alone if it is to have to cast on a secluded place and we had to survive with supplies of food or necessities of life are very limited.

However, the story of someone who is stranded is true it is. Some people do not manage her self to survive and ultimately died. But some are able to fight hard and survive until they were rescued.


Robertson Family

In 1971, Dougal Robertson with his wife and four of his children decided to travel around the world with the use of a small ship. But in the 17th century, their ship was hit by a group of killer whales so ships were sunk in the Pacific Ocean.
then The family save themselves with their small boat buoy and was only able to bring food for six days. Once the supply runs out, they hunt fish and turtles use a potluck. The condition lasted for 54 days until eventually they were rescued by the trawler belonged to Japan.

Leendert Hasenbosch

 
Leendert Hasenbosch was a sailor from the Netherlands early 18th century. He was exiled to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean as punishment the action wanton. On the island which was then uninhabited, he still survive for 6 months.

Because it is not managed to find fresh water, he was forced to drink his own urine and turtles blood before finally died of dehydration in the year 1725. A year after his death, seaman United Kingdom find a campsite and a diary belonging to the Netherlands men's written with such detail. Ironically, just after he died, it was found that Ascension Island has two sources of fresh water.


Ada Blackjack

In 1921, there were Blackjack is one of the team's expedition numbered 5 people on the island of Wrangel, North of Siberia which has an average temperature of minus 15 degrees Celsius. When the conditions are increasingly difficult, three men went in search of food and aid, but they are lost and never found again.

He just lived both with a man that she was hospitalized before finally died because of a lack of vitamin c. Blackjack itself became so adept at hunting and warmed themselves to survive. He recently successfully rescued in August 1923. Because she uncomfortable with her popularity because of the amazing experience, Blackjack finally chose back to the North Pole and lived there until he finally died at the age of 85.


Chunosuke Matsuyama

In 1754, a major storm makes a ship containing some sailors in Japan it hit the reef so that they were forced to flee to the nearby Pacific Islands. However, because couldn't find food or water, the 43 crew members eventually died.

However, Chunosuke Matsuyama, one of the sailors among them carve out the story of her experiences into a coconut tree bark before he died. He rolled up the carving into the bottle and throw it into the sea. More than 150 years later, the bottle ended up on the beach of the village of Hiraturemura, namely Japan and discovered by a collector of seaweed. That is amazing, the village is a village in the same place Chunosuke Matsuyama was born.



The 3 Fisherman from Mexico

After running out of fuel while searching for fish, Jesus Vidana Lopez, Salvador Ordonez and Lucio Rendon spent 10 months as someone who is stranded in the Pacific Ocean. Three men drifted up to 8 thousand kilometers until they finally were rescued by boat anglers to Taiwan in August 2006.

Two other fishermen died only a few months in the disaster. They ate the meat raw birds that make both vomiting blood. When drifting in a sea of Vidana, his wife gave birth to a baby girl who is already 6 months old when Vidana finally made it back to Mexico.


Marguerite De La Rocque

In 1542, a French noblewoman dumped on an island near Quebec because she has a relationship with a child in a ship Cruise led by his cousin. He was exiled along with his partner and a maid. But the man, the maid, and babies who have died on the island where many beast.

Marguerite turns out to be able to survive. With limited weapons, he hunted wild animals and even kill a bear and use feathers to warm themselves. After two years, he was rescued by fishermen and taken back to France and became famous because she's experience.


Alexander Selkirk

A 18th-century sailor, Alexander Selkirk worked under the leadership of the captain of the ship that careless and arbitrary, Thomas Stradling. Selkirk were afraid the ship's ability to sail ended up discarded because they did not obey the captain. More than 4 years, Selkirk lived on the island of Juan Fernandez in the southern Pacific Ocean.

Selkirk turned out to have a good ability to defend itself. He made a hut of trees and use of wild goat meat as a food source, implant, as well as clothing. To ensure that the goats were never fled from him, he cut the goat's legs while still young. When rescued by private boats in 1709, the story of his experience then becomes sensational and widely known.


Jose Salvador Alvarenga

Alvarenga started  his journey to find fish in Chiapas, Mexico. when the weather became so bad that he was drifting far as 11 thousand kilometers. He drifted for 13 months and survived by eating raw fish, bird, turtle blood, and rainwater.  her friend, Ezequiel Cordoba died 4 months when stranded because his stomach is not strong eating raw food.

On January 30, 2014, Alvarenga finally drifted to a small island in the Marshall Islands. In December 2015, his name again emerged as Ezequiel Cordoba family accused him of acts of cannibalism and demanded $ 1 million. Alvarenga said that he never takes his friend but threw her body into the sea.

Experience stranded in a remote place and have to survive on food supplies or equipment are limited to certainly not a pleasant thing. Most people would feel so frightened even some of saking minded to commit desperate. But perhaps we need to remember that human beings should always try to survive. To deal with things that are not desirable as this may indeed be worthwhile to learn the ways of survival in an emergency.