How 1 Man Survived Being Lost 438 Days at Sea

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[@IMOMENTOI]

Imagine him getting finally home after 438 days and asking his wife whats for lunch and she answers ‘fish’ lol.

[@LoganAddisMusic]

Are you implying that she became a lesbian during his time away? Jk

[@7leeful]

LoganAddisMusic that makes zero sense

[@IMOMENTOI]

LoganAddisMusic No.

[@vicsalvo2231]

LoganAddisMusic They don’t get it 🤣🤣

[@LoganAddisMusic]

@@vicsalvo2231 ikr!

[@danward1070]

"How 1 man survived 438 days lost at sea" *story starts with two guys* This can't be good for one of them.

[@MDNENT]

Facts😂😂

[@jamesecho3574]

Dan Ward Mostly it’s 1 man.

[@intercity1274]

True

[@Azure_fae]

They fused into 1 man

[@intercity1274]

Yeah 1 man 120 days 1 man 438 days

[@melo7572]

Every single human being celebrated their birthday while this man was stuck alone on a boat

[@Wildtooth-mg9sl]

Not the Leap year suckers

[@13rew76]

Like your thinking 👍🏻

[@r5t6y7u8]

Including him.

[@FinlandForceTeam]

And some people celebrated twice

[@DurzoHighwind]

Except Jehovah's Witness lmao

[@zacharyjones7948]

If I ever go missing with a friend and he turns up a year later and I'm dead, please honor my memory and celebrate with him and his family and don't sue him... Even if he did eat me, at least I helped the homie out.

[@toddinthemiddle]

my bucket list now includes...never being pooped out of anything.

[@johng9461]

What if he ate you alive?

[@crimsontheworld772]

@@johng9461 why would he. There's enough food. I wouldn't go out of my way to murder someone just to eat something different

[@osamasufian24]

@@crimsontheworld772 they threw away all their fishing equipment to get away from the storm

[@charleslalawigan2755]

My friend ate me and I'm still alive....

[@vesselfpv8274]

Worker on cargo ship: hey that guy looks lost Worker 2: naw hes just fishing Worker 1: but we're in one of the most isolated locations on the planet Worker 2: he'll be fine

[@BertoldSzekeres]

I was thinking the same. Were those people retarded?

[@shadowranger937]

Subscribe to pewdiepie Oh yeah yeah

[@angelotagliatelle]

*1 year later, Man survives being lost at sea for 438 days* Worker on cargo ship and 1: We told you.

[@theWolffromTransylvania]

😂😂😂

[@Lavapurg]

Worker 2 : Nah he was just extreme fishing

[@cornelioussandersapickleho8312]

*finally lands *gets sued “Well, time to go back”

[@temcade7244]

imagine if the human that he found at the house said im finally saved!

[@andrewldm7335]

Rocket league lol

[@thijmen5295]

Well at least he’d finally be off that damn boat

[@cenifh]

@@thijmen5295 or found another person to eat :)

[@hosampb5593]

The most underrated comment in the history of KZbin I'm dying here 😂😂😂

[@valencefootball9740]

Oh shi-

[@battlq6421]

It’s insane to think that while we were all going about our lives normally, there was someone that was stuck in the ocean for more than a year

[@godnotavailable2094]

I always think about things like that when I read stories like these. I was a 9 year old kid enjoying summer camp in 2013, meanwhile this dude was having the absolute WORST time of his life.

[@shivajipawar1491]

@@godnotavailable2094 or of anyone's life

[@cowgoesmoo3153]

Just think there’s been prolly hundreds of ppl that went through that and we’ll just never know about it crazy world we live in

[@AWildWillow]

Makes me wonder if anyone is going through that right now

[@ohnobro1424]

Holy hell this just hit me

[@CameronPhillips]

The fact that he got sued after that is like the biggest slap in the face lol

[@chrisboyer2195]

Cameron Phillips ikr

[@Esp-go1el]

What about when the cargo ship went right past him

[@kasposblazos864]

@@Esp-go1el Yeah im also shocked by that. Not sure If I believe it. Im pretty sure thats goes against some maritimes laws, to not rescue someone. And even if it wasnt illegal, im sure a cargo ship would have the decency to stop to get him. Maybe he was halucinating them waving to him, or he's just making it up.

[@pseudoMD]

Kaspos Blazos I am not really shocked. Humans can be pretty selfish.

[@thomasdalby7805]

Lol

[@EightDazed]

Imagine living on the most remote island in the world.. Hearing no planes or boats.. *knock knock knock* at the door

[@daeusuntpinza1296]

Yea lol

[@american_warrior724]

"Go away. Didn't u see the sign: 'no soliciting' ? "

[@demi172]

@@american_warrior724 lol

[@nusdrapoel897]

WHO CAN THAT BE KNOCKING AT MY DOOR-

[@demi172]

@@nusdrapoel897 slenderman probably.. or it is a pizza delivery

[@espacfc2365]

During the entirety of 2013, this man was somewhere in the ocean, just drifting. Think of anything that happened then, at the same time, he was out facing this.

[@AzurePrower]

I flew over him on a plane. Twice.

[@PantsofVance]

@@AzurePrower And you didn't save him? Jerk.

[@drpepperdrowner]

@@PantsofVance they. were. on. a. plane.

[@TV-ly3dp]

@@PantsofVance they probaly weren't captain they might have been a passenger and passengers can't make a plane land

[@The_Copper_Element_Itself]

@@PantsofVance he is probaly saying that he had 2 flies in that year crossing the near equator pacific lol, and passangers cant even see that further below

[@hashiramasenju3246]

My immediate thought was "so did he eat the guy." Even if he did, provided he didnt kill the guy, in that situation i dont blame him

[@ronensuperexplainer]

Even if he did kill the guy, he's been drinking turtle blood and no salt-free water foe months. He could've pled temporary insanity in the courts.

[@hashiramasenju3246]

@@ronensuperexplainer yeah, suppose i agree.

[@zacharyjones7948]

No way he ate him... With no refrigeration, the body wouldn't keep for long enough for him to eat it. Also, he had to sustain himself for a whole year anyways, so eating his friend raw who was probably skinny and famished by now wouldn't make much of a difference

[@hashiramasenju3246]

@@zacharyjones7948 Much of a difference between no nutrients and some nutrients? I'm not saying he kept the guy in a fridge or anything.but if he died and the guy was starving, i mean truly starving, he probably DID eat him. What he could eat anyways

[@zacharyjones7948]

@@hashiramasenju3246 he survived for over a year, and one or two days of eating human flesh wouldn't change the outcome. He'd been eating fish and turtles, and I highly doubt he'd change that diet for raw human flesh when the dude was probably pretty malnourished anyways. Obviously it's possible, just highly unlikely

[@vqoo8012]

they really tried sueing for 1 mil and this guy was in the middle of the ocean for 438 days. tells alot bout our world

[@willson1177]

Literally so fu*ked up

[@purplefirefox2462]

@Mad Max Rockatansky my question tho is how is he able to pay it if 1: he was lost at sea for over a year and 2: he as a fisherman barely makes enough to feed himself for a week. So like... where is the money going to come from???

[@9788735]

@@purplefirefox2462 royalties from the book he wrote

[@ESCAPE40]

Typical karen type family

[@nombiezombiej9338]

I don’t think you can sue someone for cannibalism in a survival situation anymore

[@caliside7449]

*Day after rescue* Boss: You still coming in today?

[@Verradonairun]

Good one! I've had lots of bosses who were like that.

[@Minuey]

@@Verradonairun you got stranded in the ocean several times?

[@aytay2051]

Minuey 😂😂😂

[@bluehornet197]

@@Verradonairun how many survival situations have you been in?

[@IHatePeopleOfColor]

쟘 아누바ㅐㅠ쥬

[@denisdrc5836]

This is a lucky one. Imagine all those unlucky dudes, we never hear about...

[@marwank6754]

:(

[@NoobofArchon]

true and those people who waved the unlucky ones and did not help may be sitting next to us

[@suprmanjim]

That is 1.2 years

[@RonaldoTalison]

A father in Brazil tried to fly with balloons and got lost in the ocean. Half of his body was found months later.

[@aewoon0777]

If i have to suffer like animal for 1 year to be considered as lucky, i rather be unlucky and die a quick death... No suffering

[@JMPM1]

I can't believe he managed to physically and mentally overcome this

[@Sockren]

thanks rick astley

[@quailman8238]

How about physically and mentally?

[@JMPM1]

@@quailman8238 hello grammer police

[@roylavecchia1436]

can't*, managed*

[@joemamayiursobadiamepicyoy8170]

@@roylavecchia1436 grammar nazi

[@alexhirst3772]

The best bit was “the man started to lose hope after four months abandoned”” jeeez I would’ve lost it after five days smh

[@ptbot3294]

Come on now. You know you would have have up after 5 minutrs

[@jonahdisky4026]

I would most likely give up a little bit shorter then a minute

[@moelefty3104]

Never give up in life

[@nxva9807]

Moe Lefty Best 2020 quote Write that down everyone

[@dontjudgemebymyname6620]

@@moelefty3104 agree but that is a joke

[@voidx1231]

I'm just imagining him maniacally waving and screaming as that one boat just passes him by and leaves him there. I can't.

[@shaun1243]

i'd have given up right on the spot. shit, i'd probably have given up like 2 weeks in, but seeing that oceanliner pass him must have been absolute torture.

[@thetreatment498]

You are conflicting .

[@voidx1231]

@@thetreatment498 All I'm saying is that it would be so horrible. I can't even say it.

[@thetreatment498]

@@voidx1231 This is how i will reply. I seriously don't know how to reply.

[@nah8513]

I read one story where a few survivors passed SEVEN ships. SEVEN.

[@melo7572]

I actually read the book, called “438 Days”. I feel really bad for the other guy. It was his first day out at sea, and he was so scared. According to the book, he died from eating a bird who had a venomous snake in its stomach.

[@DogDogGodFog]

No, he commited sudoku...

[@justanenderman9668]

@@DogDogGodFogyou mind explaining what that means?

[@DogDogGodFog]

@@justanenderman9668 Swiss cide

[@imamulmalikchowdhury7659]

@@justanenderman9668 he means seppuku, seppuku means suicide in japanese

[@hohohoho9837]

it really amazes me how much the guy wanted to be alive. I mean i would literally just give up

[@josephsolis6109]

Someone is currently beating this record and no one knows it...

[@superdingo9741]

and maybe many have beaten the result, but they weren't so lucky even after few years to get home and died in the ocean...

[@dr.spaghetti1973]

Perhaps no one will ever know...

[@gavinr9356]

Joseph Solis I doubt it lol this doesn’t happen very often

[@josephsolis6109]

Yeah, we'll never know what the fuck has happened out there 💯

[@MethewSmeth]

Its almost a garuntee considering how long we've been around and the oceans always been there.

[@delighted2849]

Imagine suing a man on a baseless, and unproveable argument of him having supposedly 'executed' his coworker and eaten him. And then ALSO demanding a fifty-percent share of the profits of the book published by the survivor, on the basis of compensation for him dying, which wasn't the suvivor's fault. I didn't know having a 1 digit IQ was possible, but the family of his coworker proved me wrong.

[@delighted2849]

@Joseph Thompson That's true, but there's smart greed and then there's stupid greed. Thinking they can win that case is stupid greed.

[@feetfinderguy7044]

"I didn't know having a 1 digit IQ was possible" **Fujiwara wants to know you location*

[@ulmer831]

@Sylberin all humans are trash. You can deny it but it's still true

[@feiyuin4178]

Sylberin might I argue that not all humans are trash. But rather have the potential to be trash. Nazi’s were still people before they became nazi’s. It just took a yes or no decision for them to become one of the most detestable members of western history.

[@ulmer831]

@Sylberin I'm not saying every human is trash I exaggerated it becuase even if your not a trash person every human contributes to somthing bad, whether it be driving a car and putting gases into the atmosphere or straight up murder. And I know we cant help these things (yes, some people have disorders that make them not able to stop murdering people) because they are common these days but that doesnt means your a bad person. And I will admit I exaggerated to much and to that I apologize.

[@dunklematerie3990]

2:44 "imagine the frustration" **intense wiggling**

[@rainbowangel5264]

**wiggle wiggle** That sounds wrong.

[@shyguy929]

*wiggling intensifies*

[@psyche4334]

*still wiggling at this very moment*

[@carlwinters8632]

I know this probably was not fun in the slightest but imagine every night looking up at the stars with absolutely zero light pollution. Assuming he did this, he must know the night sky by heart. Imagine all of the crazy objects he might have seen in the sky but couldn't tell anyone about it.

[@florigjonaj8777]

do you mean stars?

[@alanlambert5534]

@@florigjonaj8777 Yes he meant stars... thats why he said "looking up at the stars..."

[@florigjonaj8777]

@@alanlambert5534 he said crazy objects

[@TheFlopped2979]

@@florigjonaj8777 because theres more then just stars in the sky

[@ericchandler90]

How a 30 hour shift turned into a 10,512 hour shift.

[@MrSnowmanJoe]

Unpaid overtime.

[@poopstain5216]

Eric Chandler just pooped my pants

[@MrExoticSnow]

Is it okay to critizise capitalism at this point?

[@ericchandler90]

@@MrExoticSnow Nope. He was no longer working for the man. He became an off grid entrepreneurial nomad living off the -land- water.

[@intercity1274]

True

[@chapter4444]

I'm guessing he never plays ocean sounds to go to sleep

[@bigguacamole6921]

They are imprinted into his brain, he wont need to

[@eriktruchinskas3747]

Actually he may need the sound to fall asleep again. I used to live next to a busy road and all night you would hear cars driving by. After years of it I moved away and the silence was so weird that I had to put tv or music on just to have something to hear

[@chapter4444]

@@bigguacamole6921 I need some sounds to go to sleep. I'm guessing this guy would prefer forest sounds. I can't imagine what he went through

[@chapter4444]

@@eriktruchinskas3747 I got used to sound to sleep. I hope this guy has something different to dwell on. The ocean does not seem like a good plan

[@Scottish_Trucker]

😂😂

[@Bdawg910]

*Love how I'm watching this right before a fishing trip in the ocean tomorrrow*

[@justauser5222]

You ok, bud?

[@Bdawg910]

@@justauser5222 Yes I survived

[@justauser5222]

@@Bdawg910, I was prepared to return to this question of mine a year later and get worried. 🤧🗿

[@Bdawg910]

@@justauser5222 lol nah it's all good

[@YellowFlash34]

@@Bdawg910 thankfully you didnt break salvador’s record

[@matthewwycoff2344]

Someone could be breaking this record right now

[@brodyfl]

true

[@baseddroid]

So 4 guys see a random small fishing boat in the isolated central pacific and think, good day sir

[@vaszgul736]

If anyone should be suing anyone, it should be him suing those guys who didn't pick him up

[@iNukeZ1]

Could have been hallucinating? Just a theory

[@shilopnamreg6468]

iNukeZ definitely a possibility

[@whygamewhy]

@Wyatt Earp ....just because this guy decided to show a Chinese ship in his video doesn't mean he encountered a Chinese ship .. in fact he didn't talk and which country the ship was from...

[@andresiniesta9955]

This is how subtle brainwashing works. He never actually said that it was a Chinese ship but RealLifeLore decided to use a cargo ship with Chinese companies and people concluded on their own that it was Chinese ships that ignored him. It's brainwashing without lying.

[@msmvn1]

Ahh home sweet home 1 day later:gets sued Can I go back to the ocean?

[@SXNDICATEMUSIC]

Me Belch 😂

[@cicada-ft6eb]

He was good there

[@breezy539]

😂😂👌

[@aphaedes1820]

ProdSharma lol

[@jwwilhelmi9670]

666 likes

[@zoe.goldenberg]

This guy was out stranded on a boat for basically a year somehow physically and mentally overcoming this whilst I was probably crying to some minor inconvenience. This really shows how long id survive 💀

[@pedro6720]

Now I gotta read his book. I believe everything was engraved in his memory perfectly so it wasn’t difficult to write it, he even deserved a movie made about him

[@snazzlebaz125]

At least now we know plastic bottle pollution has some upsides

[@Rhapbus1]

Literally the only scenario where it could be considered a positive

[@anthonyeverhart4097]

Best comment ever 😂

[@MustraOrdo]

This is why I KZbin

[@electronresonator8882]

but the downsides defeat all that benefit

[@bopsop2246]

It kills thousands of people and fishzzz

[@celestialanomaly8374]

This badass deserves his own movie.

[@TheRealLilPp]

@THE JURASSIC KING Captain America what are you doing here

[@PrinceJes]

438 days fit in 2 and half hours I guess.

[@vcxz4009]

That'd be a boring movie

[@rawtoast4957]

THE JURASSIC KING what???

[@mrpool339]

This movie deserves his own badass.

[@Reflecterr]

even if he did eat him, he was a literal corpse anyways. i wouldn’t blame him because all he could eat were raw fish. they have absolutely NO proof that he was eaten alive or killed by him, so therefore case dismissed.

[@SluggishRain]

Also, the guy was sick, so eating him would just make the other guy sick, so he couldn’t have eaten him.

[@Lilith8177]

If I’m dead, and my friend needs to eat me to stay alive…have at it. I’m probably delicious

[@DeBruyne2011]

@@Lilith8177💀

[@c--money9188]

@@SluggishRainsick according to who? They guy who doesn’t want people to think he ate him 😂

[@adotintheshark4848]

In World War 2, a German sub was sunk but some of the sailors including one woman managed to get into a life raft and survived. They had no provisions so the only nourishment the sailors could get was from the woman, who was producing milk. They lived off of her for some days before they were all rescued. There was actually a movie that was made about it. It was called "Das Boob".

[@rickywilliams1586]

I can honestly see this as a film. Sounds like an extremely interesting and frustrating story.

[@OpenheartOneMind]

Yeah, like a modern day Castaway.

[@barthotuber6429]

77Wells "Cast Away 2 - Adrift“ or simply "438 Days“

[@sirticklebear5983]

It’s called the Life of Pi

[@epck]

@@sirticklebear5983 it could be done like that except it would be a sadder story and more of a suspense thriller like the perfect storn

[@paco3523]

With a cameo by Wilson the volleyball

[@jacephelan6089]

I wonder if someone is currently floating at sea completely lost, while we get to sit in bed to to the comfort of our phones...

[@sebas_andshrimp5147]

Jace Phelan all you can do is wish that person the best if there is!

[@awsomelemon2720]

Jace Phelan fuck you for making me think about this 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤪🤪🧐🧐🥺😬😑🙄🙄

[@hanfengwang6777]

I am sure there are and most of them will be lost forever.

[@theextremeviking]

@@khomperz HOLY SHIT YES.... It must be a man or more floating at the ocean unwillingly! fuck fuck fuck!

[@hieronymus1015]

and all the people tied to a radiator in some creeps basement

[@blobtuna236]

Honestly the best video on this channel. The editing and visuals are spot-on and the story being told is nothing short of incredible. Even the music choice sets the castaway and bittersweet tone perfectly (if anyone's curious, the song is called "The Barriers Between Us" by Eoin Mantell.) Alvarenga's journey was unimaginably strenuous, and I can't fathom how much mental tenacity it took for him to see this hellish voyage through. Top notch, RLL, for shouting him out.

[@davider6884]

Its beyond absolutely unimaginable to realize that during the ENTIRE year of 2013 from the first second to the last -He didnt ever feel solid ground and land -He didnt even ever see any land -He wasn't ever covered by a roof -He couldnt ever walk -He couldnt know how long he would still have to endure what he was experiencing -And so much more... Absolutely horrifying..

[@calamorta]

Imagine how scary it must have been to suddenly hear someone knocking on your door even though you live in the middle of nowhere

[@0_075]

calamorta dang that would be a nightmare for that person but at least the Mexican guy was happy

[@Sennodev]

Grim reaper: you said you wouldn’t be found by no one, Lets go

[@albert-wx2zp]

i dont live in the middle of nowhere lol

[@mshayashi]

@Vinny Booboo If you watch documentaries, you'll see...the people who found Jose Salvador Alvarega contacted authorities.

[@darraghcorr2520]

He must have been petrified

[@elliot7753]

To go through the emotional distress of being 400 days at sea with a crew mate dying then having the family sue you. It’s just sickening

[@Hetsu..]

@Quantum He had to survive is bullshit, if he was able to catch fish and live for 400 days he didnt have to eat his crew mate

[@kesm0362]

@@Hetsu.. what did the family want him to do keep the rotting corpse meters away from him for a year just to avoid being sued

[@Hetsu..]

@@kesm0362 They assume that he ate him, that's all

[@Sire_aln]

I'd be stupid to eat a *SICK* man. That dude could've had digestive problems that could affect his body

[@samsmusichub]

@Stefan Urban "Because he ate him, canibalism is still punishable by the britisch gouvernment by death." No, that was just speculation by the family.

[@entertainx6672]

What a beautiful background music, and the Story is Rally epic, it reminds me Life of pi.

[@Brandonian]

This video gave me horrible anxiety…just listening to this story is tough. The vastness of the ocean 🌊 is absolutely incredible.

[@DREADD.mp3]

It's sad that someone probably has beaten this world record, and may still be extending the time.

[@booperdooper5490]

Holy shit....

[@mpiazza000]

Happens to every DOCUMENTED recorded

[@wwtapsable]

a man alone who probably has a little better equipment and knowledge he very well could last almost indefinitely

[@MyAsdfqwe]

@@wwtapsable he was a fisherman after all

[@treesedabeast]

Sala L. Go look for them

[@jamiecottrell9399]

Good thing he worked 10,482 hours overtime to pay for that $1,000,000 lawsuit

[@TS-qq7vr]

Fishing pay is a percentage of the catch, so sorry.

[@MasterGamer-kg6zu]

he worked 10,512 hours not 10,482 hours

[@brebmeb7882]

@@TS-qq7vr r/Whoosh

[@TS-qq7vr]

Breb Meb: r/screeeeeee Yes, numbnuts I get the joke, but most horse's asses think fishermen's helpers get benefits of labor laws. They get nothing. No discrimination laws, minimum wage, safety laws, nothing. You can be called every racial slur you've ever heard, work 20 hours a day for 2 weeks, get back and be fired for any reason they feel like and get paid whatever they feel like giving you, even $0. They can fine you out of your pay for anything that pissed them off. Or you might even get a "broker" where they deduct the losses from your entire unprofitable trip from the next profitable one. Whoosh back at all the fools on here going on about any labor laws apply.

[@dannyphantom5758]

@@TS-qq7vr no your wrong haven't you ever seen deadliest catch

[@geotechms]

Fascinating story! Thoroughly enjoyed this.

[@JMyepes]

I love this story. I have learned a lot from this survivor. Patience, resilience, hope, serenity, imagination for the best to come!

[@bladez942]

Guineas record for longest work shift ever.

[@soulless6804]

Holy shit, Imagine how much money would he get of they actually counted it.

[@dailymemies]

@@soulless6804 8 mil

[@internet_user1131]

guinness world record*

[@ranabels]

I’m the 999th like just wanted to let u guys know

[@lappin357]

Guinness*

[@89tilinfinity29]

In all honesty if he ate his body, how can you blame him. No one knows what theyre capable of until theyre put in a situation like this. Drinking turtle blood and piss isnt done for fun, your survival instincts kick in and you're left with no choice. His family is just trying to make a profit, their son would be ashamed smh.

[@Jar_Jar_Binks194]

Well what did the family expect him to do leave the dead body on the boat it would smell of death so bad it's either eat the dead guy or throw him into the sea

[@raegruder4626]

Taco bell

[@killme7820]

Eat fresh

[@kamikuru5398]

Exactly fuck that family

[@3daypriest]

Freddy Giron ... Exactly right. Congrats for thinking rationally.

[@mikeo.4203]

Gotta read this book! His ethnicity definitely helped with that sun, i'm sure he eventually got sunburn though. And those peaceful nights out in the middle of the ocean must have been crazy.

[@VelkePivo]

Imagine the stars…

[@serialcarpens290]

Been to the Marshall Islands. I’ve never seen water so pure. I was in the military and when our plane landed and took off it was a huge spectacle that all of the natives came and watched.

[@mikameijer3576]

He probably didn't use skillshare.

[@sakurauyou749]

win

[@aturchomicz821]

I dont think skillshare existed back then

[@KT-yx4ge]

@@aturchomicz821 he was sarcastic...

[@tatttn]

@@KT-yx4ge r/whooosh

[@KT-yx4ge]

@@tatttn why are you whooshing me for?

[@Taikamuna]

Imagine being found after 438 days just to get sued

[@kenkeen5568]

Ikr

[@shenkeey]

He was probably thinking how silly people's problems actually are. Like, he was in pure survival mode, and those people were more worried about getting some cash to cope with the loss of their familymember than actual problems. I don't think he would've minded it that much, because it's so much more superficial than the last year he spent on sea.

[@yousifrudwan4275]

Should’ve stayed at sea

[@veke3354]

Iltaa taikamuna

[@notasoyboi1043]

Talk about kicking someone when their down

[@nadakuditigopikrishna6587]

That man has lot of hope and persistence. OMG! I could not able to imagine myself in his place. I learnt a lot from his life.

[@blackbird5634]

"I once killed a man with the sharpened beak of seagull." "What's that grandpa?" "Oh,,,ah,,nothing."

[@user-im8kc6fz1j]

3:50 who knew plastic bottles in the ocean would be actually pretty useful

[@zeyad2i]

help And they say pollution is threatening our planet lol

[@jeffb6276]

Sheesh imagine how a sea straw saved a life or 2..

[@antal4s]

Well if you ever played Raft you'd know

[@Coelophysis-yv9lj]

Antalas Aït Nedjem I have like 5 boxes full of plastic but no wood whatsoever

[@karinaortiz6971]

@@zeyad2i WTF

[@dextercochran4916]

Container ship crew: *sees raggedly-dressed man who hasn't had a haircut in months frantically waving at them from a canoe in the middle of the ocean Container ship crew: "I love this job. Everyone out here is so nice!" *waves back

[@rpggaming4167]

Karma xD

[@american_warrior724]

Lmfao😂

[@Lachyjack]

Lmao 😂

[@josuaerick9670]

LMAOOOO XD

[@lilgoblinjrgonnacry5238]

He was probably hallucinating

[@machomaddness1]

Such a strong will to live/survive, my mans a savage

[@Rishiplays777]

I read that book. It still gives me chills recalling what he went through.

[@7037Jess]

My god, imagine the feeling of stepping on land after being in a boat for 438 days

[@cz_08]

Hell yeah your gonna be like, “what is this?”

[@jp7625]

It may have taken a while to walk again

[@Chuked]

your friend Joe he probably walked across the boat as he had to take a shit and the smell was pretty bad

[@jp7625]

@@Chuked yeah, but I mean walking in something smooth like beach sand after walking in the same 4 m² rigid boat for over a year. God im already feeling my legs weak just to think about it

[@lupevaldovinos8800]

I would be walking feeling spaghetti legs for a while

[@sesamestreetcrip8789]

Lives for 438 days in the worlds largest ocean on one on the most smallest boats,eating raw fish, raw birds, turtle blood, and there own piss, comes home/ to land, gets sued That’s the definition of tough. What is life now days?

[@demonicsdomain]

Their*

[@xlgnt114]

Is Brexit even worse?

[@unlxck3255]

What does "sued" mean?

[@johncarlofernando1705]

If that was america it would be sued, fined $10000000, and execution.

[@whateverhappenshappens5023]

@@demonicsdomain you knew what he meant. Why are you a grammar troll?

[@fr89k]

"They never even bothered to stop" - Like a freight ship could just stop :D This option is pretty much non-existent. The best you can hope for is that the crew reports your position and hoping that any cost guard has a plane available with a sufficiently long range to drop them some supplies, plus they would need to dispatch a ship to pick him up...

[@Mariacarline1986]

Maximum respect to those who make a living from the seas. It's a life or death situation.

[@fressh]

I'm trying to picture what kind of person you'd have to be to sue this man.

[@MarloSoBalJr]

My sister in hindsight. She'll do some ridiculous shit like this

[@ProtoForte]

well tbf the dead guy's family members would find it to be some cruel joke to have two people lost in a boat for more than a year while only the other guy survives.

[@antifragiler]

Jehoiakim Jade Esgana Your name is misspelled

[@jackhanna2004]

Fressh Inno what ass holes

[@strangelee4400]

A poor person who is desperate for money?

[@cheeseburgermonkey7104]

Salvador: ima go on a 30 hour fishing shift *10,512 HOURS LATER* Salvador: ok im done

[@thefrub]

After surviving sharks for a year and a half, he came back and found the worst predator of all, lawyers

[@Starstrike21]

“how one man survived” *story starts off with two men in a boat* 😓

[@rockzilla1664]

You Obviously haven’t watched the video

[@rockzilla1664]

@@Starstrike21 how was I supposed to know that was a joke?

[@leelewis6666]

He ate him

[@tyaz6556]

words cannot describe the amount of hatred i feel towards the people who sued him after he was lost at sea.

[@near--zero]

@Badge Man enough to sue someone (his friend) who has been through far worse?

[@nsr5961]

Prep ok the man sort of became a celeb and made lots of money but the family of the diseased member saw that as an opportunity for money. This is the reason for the lawsuit. If the survivor didn’t make money from news coverage and show appearances the family would do nothing.

[@mshayashi]

I hear you...people are too cold, insensitive.

[@thecakeofcommunism503]

Badge Man But the man didn’t murdered him. He just needed food. Imagine being like 400 days in the middle of the Pacific, eating birds and fish you killed with your bare hands, drinking blood and pee. He wasn’t able to make the dead man live, he just needed to eat and it was so hard to find food. Yes, it was totally inhuman but he needed.

[@fritzg2475]

@Badge Man The whole Uruguayan fútbol team that crashes on the Andes mountains and survived by eating the frozen flesh of their teammates

[@Yes-hp5yh]

_Imagine how frustrated he was to return and to get sued_

[@sizzlinsj8135]

Lol.. I think he got sued after some time when he returned and not on the same day.

[@SpaceDoge]

Stop doing it to everyone

[@natedawg8832]

Serial killers have been through less 😂

[@ibtunesbukhari1909]

I'd rather go back out to sea lol

[@Yes-hp5yh]

@Space Doge Never, I shall do it to everyone, no one will escape my wrath

[@fuzzyballs8726]

I read this book 438 days when I was in jail it really made me feel better and put into perspective: welp, I guess it can always be worse 🤪

[@Rafelandroid2]

how did you end up in jail?

[@fuzzyballs8726]

Just being in the wrong place at the wrong time

[@Rafelandroid2]

@@fuzzyballs8726 well.... thats just the worst that can happen

[@DefenderOfChrist_]

@@fuzzyballs8726 nigga

[@rienn8559]

@@DefenderOfChrist_ this comment and username is very contradictory

[@lifehappensfast_21]

The fact that the conoe held up for over a year is wild

[@theWolffromTransylvania]

I would give anything to see a movie about him

[@mqfii8992]

The Life of Pi. It's pretty much the same kind of story.

[@Cheruka]

@@mqfii8992

[@squaretrianglez]

Yeah except that you have no possession but the torn worn out clothes ur wearing

[@iwouldliketobelievethattha7561]

Would you drink toilet water for a week?

[@ThePandaboi9]

Castaway

[@placidsims3091]

Nearly dies Finally is safe But guess what..... *GETS SUED*

[@DocBrown-tr8hg]

Don’t forget about the cargo ship, just cause they would have to pay more money doesn’t mean you should leave him. If he had died at sea, they would have been his murderers

[@cielopachirisu929]

Somehow your icon makes this perfect

[@placidsims3091]

Cielo Pachirisu haha somehow your icon makes your reply perfect

[@ntagPink]

Too bad i wanna sue them too

[@maxkho00]

... And gets a death penalty

[@fuzzythelion4442]

"engines died, no paddles, no oars..." well there's your problem right there, you NEVER get in a boat with no oars.

[@NSDCTwitch]

I agree, I don't like water or boats or anything but you can be sure as shit there will be something to paddle with. My question... Why didn't they jump into the water and push the boat while kicking? I know that would burn energy but do you think it would of made a difference?

[@fuzzythelion4442]

Hoenstly i doubt it would, the oceans current and wind is gonna be way stronger then whatever energy your legs kicking make, not even to consider you would have to travel 24 entire kilometers doing it as well. I'm with you on this though, id rather try and (probably) fail to get back rather then just sit and let myself float out to the abyss of the pacific lmao

[@zGJungle]

I would of been looking for a part of the boat I can rip off and use as a paddle, if there is any such non critical parts ?

[@knownas2017]

@@zGJungle Well, the broken radio and the broken engine. lol

[@charleshessproductions]

i looked up a book written about it, one of the chapters is called "ambushed by cockroaches." can you imagine going thousands of miles into most remote parts of the biggest ocean and you still can't escape the damn roaches

[@Labyrinth6000]

Likely hallucinations, unless roaches swim on the ocean.

[@shanettequao9043]

SUED? That's horrible! At that point I'd want to fight them

[@kareemyla9790]

@FAT cat I would go back to the Ocean 😂

[@tehjamerz]

International waters yo

[@DatInnocentGuy]

tehjamez the boat came from Mexico so it would be Mexico laws that apply to it

[@yass123]

Did he ever say what he did with the body?

[@Verde_Imparat]

@@yass123 what would you do with a corpse when you are in a boat kilometres away from civilization?

[@algo2957]

We need a movie of this.

[@iRival20]

algo Life of Pi

[@algo2957]

@@iRival20 I hate that shit tbh m8.

[@sebestyenmolnar6372]

@@algo2957 you just have to replace the animals with humans and you will understand the real meaning of the movie.

[@philipkenny927]

it would be a very boring movie

[@algo2957]

@@philipkenny927 I think a good director could pull it off.

[@tanialubna1336]

I love your videos thank you keep up this great work

[@wolfthequarrelsome504]

He was remarkably well fed after being alone with no food for 438 days.

[@ShintyShinto]

It's scary to think that right now there is probably someone else lost at sea that nobody knows about. Maybe in a couple hundred days we'll hear their story.... if they make it!

[@dolanimagines3186]

ShintyShinto yeh that’s crazy there’s probably someone lost

[@gabrielabdul8372]

Three boys from my country Somalia were rescued in this month febuary after three months lost in the indian ocean. Finally they were rescued from Maldives which is very far from Somalia.

[@Itstrulynick]

I made it Through the sea of comments

[@cryptojonny6837]

I always wondered if there's sea creatures so far out there that we have not yet discovered and are probably very huge like a Kraken.

[@jame5game5]

@@cryptojonny6837 Most likely yes.

[@MountainHobbler]

How the hell they going to prove he ate the other dude, ask a seagull?

[@itzfusionplex4266]

Mountain Hobbler They could do a surgery on him. EDIT: It turns out that the man who went on the boat for 400 days was forced to give $1,000,000 of a book they made about him and the family of the teen takes $1,000,000 from the book revenue. Everything is okay now.

[@itzfusionplex4266]

Mountain Hobbler Also why would he eat him? He was sick and died, he most likely was forced to throw him off the boat.

[@szalonacytryna955]

@@itzfusionplex4266 4 months into the ocean? With having to catch birds and fish? Which probably didn't happen every day? Cant't tell exactly but i wouldn't be surprised if did it. Yet if he has done it, i wouldn't really be mad, i'd probably go batshit crazy or die myself being on his place

[@shantejo]

He could have just invented the part where the other guy got sick.

[@itzfusionplex4266]

shantejo no evidence to support that happened.

[@jollygreen9867]

Music: The Barriers Between Us - Eoin Mantell

[@cyruskhalvati]

This record is ranked at num 2 but is significantly more impressive than number1 which happened in a well stocked trade ship. Three of fifteen survived (13 bodies recovered) 484 days. The others died from scurvy. Interestingly there were two separate reports of the crews original size being thirty-five men.

[@JustinY.]

As the days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into months, eventually, he stopped thinking.

[@crocodileguy4319]

I'm not getting the reference.

[@JustinY.]

@@crocodileguy4319 It's when Kars floats into space.

[@jag3596]

7/10 Interesting. An attempt at creativity that doesn't completely fall flat. Here, you're not trying to be funny. You probably just wrote the first thing that came into your mind, but it ends up being like flavor text for the video. Sometimes, your best comments aren't the jokes. EDIT: Apparently, it's a Jojo's reference. However, I ain't changing my score. It's a well-done Jojo's reference, one I haven't heard to death before. It fits well as flavor text as well for those who don't recognize it as a reference.

[@4ltrz555]

@@JustinY. YOU REPLIED! I LOVE YOU!!

[@CastCS_]

Jag Delfin Its a Jojo Reference

[@reccemdown]

Imagine being stuck at sea for over a year forced to drink your own urine and turtle blood and eat raw fish every day, seeing somebody who wont help you and as soon as you find salvation the first thing that happens to you is you get sued. What is wrong with humans.

[@LinkEX]

If we assume his part of the story as true, it gets even worse: To add insult to injury, he got sued specifically for doing something atrocious to the only company he had during the first month. Sued of eating the man he watched lose his sanity and eventually starve to death, who he presumably threw overboard at the brink of desparation, knowing that now he'd be all alone now, continuing this drift with an uncertain course and end.

[@zackestin1368]

Moral of the story for all of y’all, always bring an oar when going out on a boat

[@srkforlife1130]

Oar?

[@YellowFlash34]

An oar wouldnt do shit if you are 100 km away from the coast.

[@ezequielh9786]

My heart aches for these poor men and glad he lives on

[@SoberBeatz]

So a random guy is out in the middle of the ocean, thousands of miles from land, on a small canoe.. & those 4 guys on the ship thought that was normal & kept on going?

[@bauer444]

It was probably a Chinese cargo.

[@sebestyenmolnar6372]

@@bauer444 sadly those ships probably not even stop if there own crewmember fall into the see, Time is money, and many jobless people gladly join them crew in the next harbor.

[@nintenjabennie7917]

@@sebestyenmolnar6372 Has there ever been an example of a cargo ship knowingly leaving a crew member behind when they go overboard?

[@lordelliott42]

@@nintenjabennie7917 Probably some that can not be verified or that we don't know about? Any crew callous enough to do that probably isn't going to brag about it.

[@warbot2544]

Yes Chinese

[@RIFLQ]

Being a fisherman is hard, but being a web designer is easy with Wix

[@iisky1]

true

[@beegyoshi5382]

ahahaahahaahahahaahahhaa f*cking underrated comment lmaoo

[@TheAdnanmajor]

But being a Jedi is the hardest. Right Luke? 👌

[@GodlyXpert]

Shopify*

[@bigsnugga]

lol

[@Egoistic_girl]

It's unlikely he ate him. They managed to feed themselves before that. And he died from being sick. Eating him would be poisoning oneself since they only ate raw food. That's what I think. I wouldn't eat a sick animal. Also there would be no way to keep the meat "edible". I don't expect the fridge to be still working I guess it was powered by the motor. There's no reason to kill a human to eat it like that.

[@f.e.e.e.5427]

There are people who survived way longer than this but died at the end. The worse thing that can happen to you while stranded in the ocean is that there is no wind at all. You will be stuck at where ever you are and remain there. This man at least had a decent boat although small size and had someone with him although he gave up or couldn't continue any further. I watched steven callahans survival in the ocean his boat sunk and he had one of those orange small plastic emergency tent which lasts up to 4 weeks, was blown by a fish, his spear got also broken by a huge fish, he got multiple occasions with sharks he got salt sickness because of too much contact with ocean water his skin fell off and he had more than 100 open wounds what that man went through in 75 days is crazy. Records are always about the longest or biggest which doesn't make any sense to me. When it comes to hardship, yeah those people who survived for years, who knows what they went through...

[@maxmoore8123]

>Gets sued for something there is absolutely no proof of and no way possible finding out seems legit

[@unitedeagle4046]

You can get sued and not get charged. The judge probably instantly dropped the case.

[@jamesecho3574]

Max Moore Ikr. I’m assuming they just want a way to get some free money whatsoever. Edit: Actually this is possibly the best explanation why they are getting sued with no absolute proof of it actually occurring. But that is just my opinion.

[@obi-wankenobi4907]

@@jamesecho3574 exactly.

[@vhinojosa91]

Sadly, Mexico is such a shit place and so is it's court. You are guilty until proven innocent, and he had no evidence to prove his innocence

[@thickbmo3108]

@@vhinojosa91 sounds like a rape case in America

[@greybolt874]

My dearest hatred towards the people who attempted to sue him

[@qqvx]

dumbasses finna sue him 💀

[@diybeast3943]

he needed to eat him if he didn't he might die, its not like he murdered him

[@cappuccinopapi3038]

@@diybeast3943 I mean he could have also killed him

[@jameshearty4038]

@@cappuccinopapi3038 He definitely killed him.

[@cappuccinopapi3038]

@@jameshearty4038 he did

[@mhdsakeeksakeek7494]

This person is an inspiration for millions of humans. His story has a lesson. Never loose hope and always struggle in your life

[@ahmedaj2000]

The music matches so well

[@Keymaster2022]

I'm glad to see pollution saved someone's life for once.

[@thecrippledgod2789]

Underrated

[@sergiontothetop]

Lel

[@electgeeexe]

Sounds ironic

[@electronresonator8882]

in that situation, you will also use pollution to survive

[@anthonyjh02]

Top 5 facts the government doesn’t want you to know

[@kaomocchi3671]

*Survives 438 days lost at sea* Gets sued later... *ExCuSe mE WhAtThEFuCk?*

[@cryzone2376]

oh wow XD

[@-_mcii_-8922]

More like *Survives 438 days lost at sea* Gets sued, goes to jail, gets death sentence... *ExCuSe mE WhAtThEFuCk?*

[@vdzmhm]

Wow

[@iceeleafeon4281]

I feel bad wow

[@valentinom.4292]

Excuse me waterfuck?

[@joelgarcia3354]

In that coast (the coast of Chiapas, where he set sail) have disappeared many fishing men. Actually the other guy that castaway with him was from Pijijiapan, the town were my grandparents live. I have been in a beach there and the waves are super strong; despite that, people doesn’t care, they are used.

[@dojob8204]

The music is just eerily matching ☺️🌻🌻