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29/07/2020 GMT

Adrift for 76 days

BBC World Service - Witness History, Adrift for 76 days

A remarkable story of survival, alone in a life-raft adrift in the Atlantic ocean

Steven Callahan's remarkable story of survival, alone in a life-raft adrift in the Atlantic ocean

A remarkable story of survival. In 1982, Steven Callahan was sailing alone across the Atlantic when one night his yacht hit something in the water and began to sink.  He managed to get into a life raft but no one knew he was in trouble. For the next two months he drifted 2000 miles across the ocean. How did he survive? He told his story to Alex Last. 
Photo: Steve Callahan shows how he hunted fish from his life raft. © Steve Callahan

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