They almost had justice. Shame they lived.
Five fishermen who survived 55 days adrift by drinking rain and parboiling passing fish arrive in Galapagos
Submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/americas/ecuador-fishermen-55-days-adrift-galapagos-latam-intl
Comments
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
O_R_I_O_N@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
They’re just fishemen. What’s your fucking problem?
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
They’re fishermen. They’re murderers.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Shame there’s not more information on what they had with them.
I assume their boat was barely sea-worthy to start with but they probably left port with the expectation of staying at sea for several days at least. They also obviously had the gear to catch and cook fish.
It’s a big deal, and a life threatening situation, but not an epic feat of survival.
felixwhynot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I really want to know more about the parboiled fish. Like… how? Why just parboil?
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah who knows. It might have been a translation issue. They might have had very rudimentary cooking stuff so maybe the best they could do was to boil it for a couple of minutes.
rbos@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Saving fuel, perhaps. Or maybe they used a solar cooker. Jerry rigged even. Boiling water is hard but heating it to fish-safe temperature would be much easier.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Article said they were drinking rusted water whatever that means. Safe to assume they didn’t have shit
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I guess they drained some water from the radiator on the engine.
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
55 days is a lot though if you were only prepared for a few. Plus the fear must have been nuts.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah. That’s kind of what I was saying. It’s a big deal and a life threatening situation but it’s nothing compared to the oceanic survival hall of fame.
Bligh’s voyage after the mutiny of the bounty is kind of the feat by which others are measured:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty#Bligh'…
Navigation by dead reckoning, no supplies, hostile natives et cetera.