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Question
Do you know any stories about people who were lost in uninhabited places and were later rescued? Name them.
Solution
Yes. In 1971, the Robertson family boarded their yacht Lucette at Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall, to sail around the world. Eighteen months into the trip, they were 200 miles from the Galapagos Islands when catastrophe struck. Within minutes, a pod of killer whales struck and sank their boat.
The family, showing incredible perseverance, scrambled aboard a leaky raft. When that finally deflated seventeen days later, they made for their dinghy, the Ednamair. There was only enough water for ten days, and the only food onboard consisted of a bag of onions, a tin of biscuits, ten oranges, six lemons, and half a pound of glucose sweets. When that ran out, the family drank turtle blood to survive.
The matriarch of the family, Lyn Robinson, was a nurse and devised a gruesome technique to keep them hydrated with rainwater collected in the boat.
On July 23, 1972, the family was finally picked up after a Japanese crew spotted their distress flare.
