[Rhodes22-list] Oceans going Rhodes

[Wally Buck]

Slim,

I read that he used a baseball bat (add that to your blue water checklist) 
to kill sea turtles. He then used parts of the sea turtle as bait for birds. 
I am not sure if he used fishing line or hit the birds with a bat. I agree 
that the guy showed good survival instinct but he seems to lack a little 
common sense regarding safety. Did he even have a flare gun, mirror, whistle 
....? It is amazing he is still alive. It is good to know that my many years 
playing baseball and softball doubled as survival training!

Wally

>From: Kip Hansen <kip@i4.net>
>Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Oceans going Rhodes
>Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 08:57:12 -0400
>
>Not a Rhodes.
>
>There's a photo of the boat at
>
>http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/West/09/24/man.adrift/index.html
>
>(link supplied my mfm)
>
>Kip
>
>Steve Alm wrote:
>
> > I realize the guy was "just" going out to Catalina, but where was his 
>radio
> > backup? EPIRB?  Notification of others, Etc.?  His survival skills have 
>been
> > proven.  Now, let's talk about his contingency planning...(but then, who
> > needs a plan when you can float to Cost Rica on birds and rainwater, 
>right?)
> >
> > How do you suppose he killed the birds?  Clunking them over the head 
>with
> > his hand-held?  Snaring them with his antenna cable?  Whittling his 
>paddle
> > down to make a spear?  Catching rainwater in his...lifeboat?  HELLO?
> > Really!!??  How wise is it to venture out into the Pacific ocean, 
>infamous
> > for its confused seas, alone, in a smallish boat without SOME kind of 
>safety
> > net?
> >
> > Great survivalist.  Clever bird hunter.  Short on brains!!!!  Surely, 
>this
> > could have been prevented.  I hope the movie proves that he was just 
>that
> > damn good a sailor and simply got unlucky.
> >
> > Slim
> >
> > P.S.  The subject line says: Ocean going Rhodes.  Please tell me this 
>wasn't
> > really a Rhodie.  Was it a Rhodes?  I didn't hear that part.
> >
> > On 9/25/02 8:09 PM, "Robert Quinn" <rjquinn@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I heard the story this morning on the news and we watched the video of 
>the
> > > fellow and the boat today - obviously this fellow's survival skills 
>are top
> > > notch to say the least.  Books and movies to follow!
> > >
> > > Heck two weeks of AF survival school and I wondered whether we'd make 
>it.
> > > At least I had company and we pulled each other along.  To do it by 
>yourself
> > > is for 3 months you have to be a very special person.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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