66 days at Sea

He must have had chips and tartare sauce with the fish

Yes and quite possibly bald and clean shaven when he set out ...

Really ? More to this story than meets the eye imo.

agreed, soon as heard this doesn't add up, caught fish with his bare hands ???? every tried it ? its bollox. truth will out

Maybe the boat was afloat for 65 of the days.

Steven Spielberg is making some phonecalls and Tom Hanks has put his razor in the bin.

how did he collect the "rainwater"? body language all wrong as well imo

"So it's come to this .. drinking Baldrick's water."

just saw this on the news and immediately thought it's bollox

ah fayal blayesed

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

no signs of dehydration or malnutrition or sunburn

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?

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.

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

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 

Poor guy, he gets back to civilisation only to find out that call me a taxi has been banned

If you were shipwrecked, or like those rugby players who crashed in the mountains, would you eat an already dead person to survive?

Well, it's easier than trying to eat a live one!

Jc

Of course

reminds me of that case in Australia where some guy was "lost" and then found looking surprisingly chipper

A fishy tale one thinks

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.

wasn't he on a fishing trip?
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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.

Your speaking to the experts on this forum Dr.