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Since his survival drift, he's made dozens of additional offshore passages and ocean crossings, most of them with no more than two other crew. This incident is featured on the I Shouldn't Be Alive episode "76 Days Adrift". Callahan's story also featured on an episode of British survival expert Ray Mears's television series Extreme Survival.
Their survival story is known as 117 Days Adrift despite the duration actually being longer (118 days) because initial news reports were wrong and it was decided to keep this name for consistency. [2] The Baileys' journey began when they left Southampton, England, in their 31-foot (9.4 m) yacht Auralyn. Their intended destination was New Zealand.
Surviving for 76 days adrift on the Atlantic Ocean; Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea Steven Callahan (born February 6, 1952) is an American author, naval architect, inventor, and sailor. In 1981, he survived for 76 days adrift on the Atlantic Ocean in a liferaft .
José Salvador Alvarenga (Spanish: [xoˈse salβaˈðoɾ alβaˈɾeŋɡa]; born c. 1975) is a Salvadoran fisherman and author who was found on January 30, 2014, aged 36 or 37, [nb 1] on the Marshall Islands after spending 14 months adrift in a fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean beginning on November 17, 2012.
Dougal Robertson (January 29, 1924–September 22, 1991) was a Scottish author and sailor who with his family survived being adrift at sea after their schooner was holed by a pod of orcas in 1972, one of the few documented orca attacks in the Pacific.
A Hawaii teenager has been rescued after spending nearly 12 hours lost amid stormy seas. A volunteer lifeguard was key to his safe return, officials said, in a dramatic event captured on video by ...
Rose-Noëlle was a trimaran that capsized at 6 AM on June 4, 1989, in the southern Pacific Ocean off the coast of New Zealand. [2] [3] Four men (John Glennie, James Nalepka, Rick Hellriegel and Phil Hoffman) survived adrift on the wreckage of the ship for 119 days.
His body was lost at sea, but was recovered in November 2007 and positively identified in December 2008. [291] 27 May 1943 Louis Zamperini: 26 Oahu, Hawaii, U.S. Zamperini was an Olympic distance runner and soldier serving on the B-24 bomber Green Hornet. Due to mechanical difficulties, the bomber crashed into the sea, killing most of the crew ...