2023-07-18 06:19:14
An Australian sailor was rescued alive after surviving for more than two months adrift in Pacific waters based on feeding on raw fish and drinking rainwater, local media reported Monday.
The survivor, identified as 51-year-old Tim Shaddock, was found last week in a damaged boat, along with his dog Bella, after a tuna boat sighted him off the coast of Mexico.
“It’s been an ordeal (…) I’ve been alone on the high seas for a long time,” said Shaddock, in a video published by Channel Nine on Australian television, where he appears very thin, with a bushy gray beard and long hair. , but lucid when specifying that now he only needs “a rest and a good meal”.
(9News Australia)
The sailor and his pet left the Mexican coastal city of La Paz in April for French Polynesia, however, a strong storm damaged the boat and its electronic equipment preventing them from being able to communicate for ransom or continue with your journey of about 6,000 kilometers.
A doctor, who is traveling on the tuna boat, told Nine last night that the survivor is in “stable and very good” health as they head to the mainland.
This maritime ordeal starring Shaddock is reminiscent of the movie “Cast Away”, starring Tom Hanks, about the story of a man who spends several years on an island in the Pacific.
(9News Australia)
In January 2014, the Salvadoran castaway José Salvador Alvarenga was rescued in the Marshall Islands after surviving about 13 months on the high seas based on eating raw meat of birds and fish and drinking turtle blood, their own urine and rainwater.
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