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Amazing survival & ordeal!

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  • 27-03-2012 5:45pm
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    Morrisseeee
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    Teen survives 28 days adrift at sea
    An 18-year-old who worked in a seaside hotel in Panama happily took up an offer by two friends to join them on a fishing trip and earn some extra cash.

    Twenty-eight days later, Adrian Vasquez was found drifting alone in the 10ft fishing boat. He was in the waters off Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, more than 600 miles from where the trio had set out to fish.

    His two friends had died, and he owed his survival to a sudden rainstorm, the Ecuadorean coastguard captain who helped nurse him back to health said.

    Mr Vasquez was flown to Guayaquil on the Ecuadorean mainland to be turned over to the Panamanian consul.

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    AnonoBoy
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    Sounds like he was just trying to skive off work to me.

    Feckin' teenagers. :mad:


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    RichieC
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    28 days adrift.. it's got movie title all over it.

    Just needs the mates to come back from the dead.


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    AnonoBoy
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    RichieC wrote: »
    28 days adrift.. it's got movie title all over it.

    Just needs the mates to come back from the dead.

    And have him talk to a volleyball until that happens.


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    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    They left out the teeth marks found on his dead mates bodies also he put on 2 stone in weight **Blurp**


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