Oct 17 2012 The fear of death at sea

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  He realized that the 90% of the castaways who managed to reach safety at being able to get on a lifeboat, died about three days ..., when a man actually takes at least ten to die of thirst and thirty to fifty, hunger.

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  He realized that the 90% of the castaways who managed to reach safety at being able to get on a lifeboat, died about three days ..., when a man actually takes at least ten to die of thirst and thirty to fifty, hunger.

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  He realized that the 90% of the castaways who managed to reach safety at being able to get on a lifeboat, died about three days ..., when a man actually takes at least ten to die of thirst and thirty to fifty, hunger.

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  He realized that the 90% of the castaways who managed to reach safety at being able to get on a lifeboat, died about three days ..., when a man actually takes at least ten to die of thirst and thirty to fifty, hunger.

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  He realized that the 90% of the castaways who managed to reach safety at being able to get on a lifeboat, died about three days ..., when a man actually takes at least ten to die of thirst and thirty to fifty, hunger.

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  He realized that the 90% of the castaways who managed to reach safety at being able to get on a lifeboat, died about three days ..., when a man actually takes at least ten to die of thirst and thirty to fifty, hunger.

The evening was peaceful, quiet. I was cooling a bit when I noticed that the lid was missing one of the jerry cans. I began to search the locker desalination, Pancho believed to have seen it around. The machine which generates drinking water was running. But the removal of the pots was there, ¡Again!, one of them touched the water filter and dropped him causing air enter the trickiest part of the desalination plant: the membrane. «Go!», exclaimed looking at Pancho after hearing that sound wonderful contraption changed. "I think that air has entered the system!».

After turning it off, filter back into position and on again, check desalaba no longer. The purge, namely, we remove the air from the circuit, the surveyed, we let run for a while ... but nothing. Pancho turned suggested that we return and try the next day. He was who else knew the subject, so I nodded.

"¡The ho rolled, the he rolled!», I kept repeating. With so much water around us and nothing, we could not drink

Throughout the afternoon and night I could not stop thinking about the problem that if I did we would work. "¡The ho rolled, the he rolled!», I kept repeating. With so much water around us and nothing, we could not drink. Reserve would end and we would have disqualified us to apply for foreign aid. Until we lose the basic things around us we miss no value. I know it is a truism, but when experienced in flesh, so closely, impresses. This reminded me of the importance of this precious liquid in those scarce countries or areas, even national, where there is abundant. Back in 1989, crossing the Algerian Sahara desert with my cousin Rafael Feliu, a liter of water cost to change 1,5 euros and only 10 cents a liter diesel that it consumed Philemon, an old but effective over Land Rover 15 years it took to Africa for a month.

But hey, Now it was not just the price that mattered, since in the middle of the Atlantic there are no supermarkets ... yet! Fortunately, the day after the desalination plant was restarted. Again Pancho's skill overcame the technical difficulties. What joy and tranquility see out the little hose as desired fresh water, especially if you're thirsty! Yes, fresh water, that not only quenches our thirst but also serves to hydrate freeze-dried foods.

He wanted to prove to the world the chance of survival at sea only what nature would provide him

Another of my cousins, Antonio Forss (Toni), Mallorcan biologist, was concerned from the outset for adventure. In one of our meetings on the Balearic island summer told me he had read in college something about a doctor who survived the Atlantic crossing by sail sailing without water and food. He wanted to prove to the world the chance of survival at sea only what nature would provide him. By now he had heard so many unbelievable stories that I encouraged him to find the source. Two weeks had the title of the book and its author. Toni could not imagine then that would volunteer Castaway reading endless potential responses to emergencies and risk our lives. He became a moral cornerstone for our survival at sea.

The author, the aforementioned Dr. Alain Bombard, told him the experiences of his feat. Was intended to establish a practical system to teach mode castaways stay alive in offshore fishing only basis and drink the liquid given off by the fish to squeeze; rainwater advantage; drink seawater and pick and eat the plankton that clung to a thin network threw overboard.

"If drinking is more important than eating, trust is more important than drinking », repeated

Sufficient data to know that hundreds of people were dying every year in it, and that of these, half died off the coast. He realized that the 90% of the castaways who managed to reach safety at being able to get on a lifeboat, died about three days ..., when a man actually takes at least ten to die of thirst and thirty to fifty, hunger. "If drinking is more important than eating, trust is more important than drinking », repeated. Knowing that in a cubic meter of water there are two hundred times more life than the same extent of land, It showed that in such extreme circumstances the worst enemy of a castaway is despair. It also found that among the 50% and 80% the weight of the fish consists of fresh water and that if I remove the liquid in his flesh escurriéndolo, water needs would be covered.

But due to the stress of a shipwreck, for three or four days after the same is not usually fish, which would mean that he-in his quest-nor should hydrate with fresh water during this interval. Yes, Instead, absorb between 800 and 900 milliliters per day seawater, although for no longer than five days. Drinking salt water kills galore from nephritis, dehydration and other causes.

Dr.. Bombard came to stand over twenty days without a single drop of fresh water

Dr.. Bombard came to stand over twenty days without a single drop of fresh water, except the fish contained in the squeezed. He says that since leaving Monaco seawater lived fourteen days - no row-and forty-three of the juice thus obtained. He explains that one must have only himself to save his life, and allowed to give advice: "Keep Calm and distrusts, both good and bad situations ". These words remind me that since the Nobel wrote Rudyard Kipling in his famous If: "... if you run into triumph, if it your defeat and try two impostors the same
form ... / 'll Be a Man ..., son!».

Both the U.S. Navy and the Air Force Argentina considered, reports collected from the website cibernautica.com.ar, a man needs about half a liter of water per day to stay healthy, but can survive with much less of a quart. A person in perfect health can live eight to twelve days without water. Keep the water in the body is almost as important as drinking water. The study lists the situations that normally cause the death of the shipwreck: asphyxia, kills in minutes; thirst, kills in days; hunger, kills in weeks; fear, combined with weather, can cause death within hours.

For more information: www.atlanticoaremo.com