What if you get stuck in the middle of the sea? There should be no way out. The same happened with one person. He went on a world tour with his family. One day suddenly a shark attacked their boat. The boat overturned and everyone got trapped in the sea. For 38 days the whole family kept fighting to save their lives. To stay alive, drank turtle blood, ate shark meat. Now this story has come in front of the whole world.
Douglas Robertson was only 18 years old when his boat sank in the sea. Douglas told, it is about 1971. The whole family had gone on a world tour. An orca whale attacked our boat about 200 miles from the Galapagos Islands. The boat sank. With us were our parents, two twin brothers Neil and Sandy, who were only 11 years old. Seeing the danger, father congratulated the courage. Said- till we reach the ground, we will have to struggle to stay alive. We had a small canoe, started walking ahead of it.
don’t catch fish, hunt them
According to the Daily Star, Douglas told that his father taught him some ways to stay alive. Said, catch rain water for drinking. We don’t have to catch fish, we have to hunt them. They will fight till the end but we have to kill them because they are the only source of our food. It was a terrible test for us. I told my father that it is not possible to live now. But father was strict and he said – after some time we will be on the ground. Till then we have to stay alive.
Japanese boat saved us
We kept on fighting for 38 days. Lived on turtle’s blood and rain water for 38 days. Even ate shark meat. Killed many more animals so that they could fill their stomachs. At last that day has come. A Japanese trawler boat was passing by. She was going towards the Panama Canal. He saw us and saved us.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : March 31, 2023