438 Days Adrift. Only One of Them Came Back.

In 30 January 2014 a woman on Ebon Atoll walked down to check a fishing net and found a man standing in the shallows in torn underwear, hair past his shoulders, ankles swollen so badly he could barely stand. He had left Mexico 438 days earlier on a two day fishing trip. He crossed roughly 10,800 kilometres of the Pacific in an open boat with no cabin, no roof and no engine, and the only other man on board did not survive the crossing. Five cases in this video, all of them documented, none of them closed. A trimaran that drifted upside down for 119 days with four men living inside the hull. A boat that turned up on an uninhabited atoll nine years after it vanished, with a grave beside it that somebody built and nobody has ever claimed. A sailor who lasted 133 days on a wooden raft and set a record that still stands. And a man who sailed into the Atlantic with a boat that could not survive the trip, then stopped writing. 🔔 Subscribe for more animated documentaries. Timestamps: 00:00 – A man in the shallows on Ebon Atoll 01:47 – The crewmate who stopped eating 02:33 – The drift model that checked out 03:04 – Why people called it a fraud 03:54 – Rose-Noelle: 119 days upside down 05:17 – The police did not believe them 05:36 – What the barnacles proved 06:58 – The Sarah Joe leaves Maui, 1979 07:43 – The boat turns up on Taongi 08:34 – Somebody built the grave 10:14 – Poon Lim: 133 days on a raft 12:05 – The study nobody has explained 13:38 – The empty trimaran in the Sargasso Sea 15:33 – The last three weeks of the logbook 16:27 – No body, no note Sources: contemporary reporting on the José Salvador Alvarenga case and the University of Hawaii drift modelling, the New Zealand police inquiry into the Rose-Noëlle, National Marine Fisheries Service accounts of the Sarah Joe discovery on Taongi Atoll, Admiralty records of the Ben Lomond sinking and Poon Lim's rescue, Macdonald Critchley's 1943 study of shipwreck survivors, and the Sunday Times investigation of Donald Crowhurst's logbooks. #LostAtSea #Survival #UnsolvedMysteries