To maintain his sanity, he took notes on his experience and did yoga whenever his weak body allowed it. He ate barnacles and sometimes the birds attracted HeĬollected rainwater for drinking and fashioned a makeshift spear for fishing. Callahan, then 30, found himself alone and adrift in a leaky inflatable raft with few resources. On February 5, 1982, some 800 miles west of the Canary Islands, his boat, the Napoleon Solo, capsized in a storm.
Who among us, we want to know, would live to tell Of extreme conditions for which there is little preparation or precedent. Letting yourself drown? How long could you hold out hope? We ask these questions-over dinner, at parties, on lazy Sunday afternoons-notīecause we're looking for survival tips but because we're fascinated by our limits and our ability to cope with the kinds Just generally up the proverbial creek without a paddle, what do you suppose you would do? How long, say, would you swim before
What would you do? If you were stranded at sea in a small inflatable raft, or stuck in the mountains with a broken leg, or
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