Fishermen Survive 8 Days in Gulf of Mexico on Beer, Bubble Gum and Prayer
A remarkable story of survival - 3 fishermen survived 8 days in the Gulf of Mexico - completely unaware the search had been called off. How did they do it?
The Survivors Club welcomes three new members - three fisherman who survived eight harrowing days in the Gulf of Mexico unaware that the search had been called off after the Coast Guard scoured 80,000 square miles.
Their survival diet: crackers, bubble gum, beer and three gallons of water. And perhaps most important, according to a report on CNN, they kept going because of the power of prayer.
"They fought depression and hallucinations," Sail-World reported, "were spooked by schools of sharks and kept up their flagging strength by eating a noxious diet of gasoline-soaked crackers, hot beer and tainted
“We
had a bunch of black-tipped sharks schooling up under the boat,”
on of the fishermen said. “One of them jumped across the back of the boat. So when
we dived under the boat, we looked for sharks.”
“We didn't have an EPIRB (distress beacon)," one of the fishermen recalled. "I had everything else on
there but that. But you can bet your butt I'll have
one on the next one.”
