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casemoney
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Sitting on an upturned Boat ate Rawfish and Drank rain water Plain Hes looking well imo ..Shocked
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Report Crisp77 • April 3, 2015 12:17 PM BST
He must have had chips and tartare sauce with the fish
Report casemoney • April 3, 2015 12:23 PM BST
Yes and quite possibly bald and clean shaven when he set out ...
Report Facts • April 3, 2015 12:56 PM BST
Really ? More to this story than meets the eye imo.
Report morpteh mackem • April 3, 2015 1:05 PM BST
agreed, soon as heard this doesn't add up, caught fish with his bare hands ???? every tried it ? its bollox. truth will out
Report naydam • April 3, 2015 6:03 PM BST
Maybe the boat was afloat for 65 of the days.
Report lybertyne • April 3, 2015 6:16 PM BST
Steven Spielberg is making some phonecalls and Tom Hanks has put his razor in the bin.
Report MisterBadger • April 3, 2015 9:52 PM BST
how did he collect the "rainwater"? body language all wrong as well imo
Report Just Checking • April 3, 2015 9:54 PM BST
"So it's come to this .. drinking Baldrick's water."
Report bigH • April 3, 2015 10:15 PM BST
just saw this on the news and immediately thought it's bollox
Report MisterBadger • April 3, 2015 10:17 PM BST
ah fayal blayesed
Report the bloob • April 3, 2015 11:25 PM BST
I agree that it looks like a hoax but wasn't he on a fishing trip? if he could still access the equipment then catching fish not a problem. Apparently out in the open Atlantic you get a lot of Flying Fish, the ones that jump out of the water and glide for a good way, if you're in a sail boat they often land on deck. My uncle crossed the Atlantic in a home-made boat a few years ago and he said that they had dozens of these fish land on deck
Report bigH • April 3, 2015 11:29 PM BST
no signs of dehydration or malnutrition or sunburn
Report Just Checking • April 3, 2015 11:29 PM BST
If you've fishing gear + fish + rainwater you could survive 66 days I think?
For a start, I presume his starting point was a place where fish WERE, which is why he was there in the first place?
Report Just Checking • April 3, 2015 11:30 PM BST
I read the report briefly I thought it was a proper boat with a cabin to stay out of the sun in, not a little life raft.
Report Just Checking • April 3, 2015 11:32 PM BST
Actually given it IS a proper size boat, if it had been in a harbour for 2 months someone might have seen it?
There's the possibility I suppose it is fake but he loaded it up with food and water purifiers and so on.

Poor guy, he gets back to civilisation only to find out that call me a taxi has been banned Sad
Report MisterBadger • April 3, 2015 11:36 PM BST
if he could still access the equipment then catching fish not a problem.

the boat was supposedly capsized, unlikely he would have the fishing gear to hand?

and again, what did he use to collect the "rain water"?

as rescuers observed, he seemed in surprisingly good nick  Plain
Report MisterBadger • April 3, 2015 11:37 PM BST
Poor guy, he gets back to civilisation only to find out that call me a taxi has been banned

Laugh
Report Just Checking • April 3, 2015 11:38 PM BST
If you were shipwrecked, or like those rugby players who crashed in the mountains, would you eat an already dead person to survive?
Report naydam • April 4, 2015 1:34 AM BST
Well, it's easier than trying to eat a live one! Devil
Report Facts • April 4, 2015 1:50 AM BST
Jc

Of course
Report brendanuk1 • April 4, 2015 2:17 AM BST
reminds me of that case in Australia where some guy was "lost" and then found looking surprisingly chipper
Report Big_Issue • April 4, 2015 8:12 AM BST
A fishy tale one thinks
Report Facts • April 4, 2015 9:18 AM BST
Just watched a video of him being interviewed. Definitely something very fishy about this. His demeanour and flippant comments are unreal. Methinks the guy is an attention seeking wannabe.
Report Coachbuster • April 4, 2015 12:18 PM BST
wasn't he on a fishing trip?
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Grin
Report Dr Crippen • April 4, 2015 1:08 PM BST
If you had just spend 66 days alone, you would have difficulty putting a sentence together initially.
You certainly would not be fluent in your speech and readily answer questions.
Report Crisp77 • April 4, 2015 1:11 PM BST
Your speaking to the experts on this forum Dr.
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