On the brink of life and death! People who managed to survive in inhuman conditions Bashny.Net

The collapse of the "Essex»
In 1820, the whaler "Essex" surf the South Pacific, the sperm whale attacked. The vessel was holed and the ship sank. A team of 20 people managed to get over to the boat, taking with him supplies of food and fresh water for two days. The Salvation provisions stretched a couple of weeks. After over fresh water, rinse your mouth sailors sea water and drank their own urine. When the team was on the verge of death from thirst, appeared on the horizon a desert island.
Having exhausted this week almost all the resources of the island, the crew members "Essex" decides to resume swimming in search of a new island. But take with food stocks is too little for such a long journey, and one by one the sailors begin to die. In order to survive, the remaining members of the crew decide to have the bodies of their dead comrades. February 18, 1821 the British whaler "Indian" noted the first boat with the three remaining sailors. February 23 whaler "Dauphin" rescued two sailors another boat; three sailors who wished to remain on the island, were also rescued. Three members of the crew of the third boat lost at sea.





Jose Salvador Alvarenga
In December 2012 boat fisherman Jose Salvador Alvarenga got in a heavy storm. Jose, along with 15-year-old son of his friend killed in the open ocean. Radio communication and motor boat broke down, and all that remained to fishermen, is to try to survive and hope that they will find. They eat fish, sea turtles, their blood and rainwater. The body of the young man could not stand the menu, and 4 months later he died. Jose boat drifted for a long time in the ocean, until he came to the shore - a vessel issued to the Marshall Islands. Locals took José to the capital, where he was sent home to Mexico. After the return of Jose partially lost his memory, and a number of issues related to its survival, and remains unanswered.



Aron Ralston
In May 2003, during the passage of the canyon Blue John in Canyonlands National Park, Utah Aron got caught under a boulder hand. Once finished the last reserves of food and water, Aaron faced a choice: to live or die. Out of the trap can be only one way - cut off his right hand portion above the wrist. With traumatic shock and the risk of severe blood loss climber wandered in the desert until he met tourists from the Netherlands.
Aron Ralston was the prototype of the hero of the film "127 Hours," directed by Danny Boyle.



Mexican fishermen
Jesus Vidal Lopez, Salvador Ordonez and Lucio Rendon almost 10 months adrift in the Pacific Ocean before they were found. They survived by eating raw fish and birds and quench your thirst with salt and rain water. Their boat was found near the Marshall Islands by the Japanese fishing boat.



Harrison Oken
At 30 kilometers from the coast of Nigeria in May 2013 sank the tug. Killing all crew members, other than a ship's cook. Harrison had the good fortune to be born under a lucky: he found a cabin, which formed an air pocket. There, at a depth of 30 meters, he spent 62 hours. Coca divers found, which was sent to search for and recovery of bodies of the crew.



Ed Stafford
British explorer and former captain of the British Army became the first person in the world who was walking along the Amazon River. Safe walking the end of the expedition lasting 859 days inspired him to experiment - volunteer to be a resident of an uninhabited island. Without tools, items of clothing and 60 days he was trying to survive on the island of Fiji. Life on the island he documented on camera. How he managed to stay on the island and some survival skills he used can be seen in the movie channel Discovery «bare survival».



Mauro Prosperi
While passing through the Sahara "Marathon in the sands" in 1994, Italian police Mauro Prosperi lost his way and wandered in the wilderness. When he ran out of water, he decided to commit suicide by cutting his wrists. But due to lack of water in the body the blood was too thick and quickly curled. Apparently, considering it as a sign Mauro found the strength to continue their journey. After 5 days, his family found nomads.
To survive, a marathon runner drinking urine and blood of bats, which he found in a Muslim shrine. In total, Mauro spent in the desert 9 days. During his wanderings he had lost 18 kg.



Norman Ollestad
Norman Ollestad with his father
February 19, 1979 during a snow storm in the California mountains at an altitude of more than two kilometers, the plane crashed. The only survivor of a plane crash was the 11-year-old boy Norman. Despite his age and lack of reinforcements, he was able to walk down the mountain.
After 30 years, Norman wrote the book "Crazy from the storm", in which he told in detail about the events of those days and how he managed to survive.



Ricky Mega
In 2001, Australian farmers have found a man who looked more like a skeleton covered with skin. He could not remember clearly, as was one on one with nature, and his memories were disjointed fragments: here he goes on a sparsely populated area on the car, but he lies face down, covered with earth, surrounded by a pack of dingoes worn. For several days he wandered in search of people, yet in the end decided not to stop. He built a hut in which he lived the next 3 months, feeding on grasshoppers, leeches and frogs.



Steven Callahan
In the autumn of 1981, in a self-built boat Steven was in a severe storm. Raging elements deprived of his boat, and Stephen was adrift in a raft of less than 2 meters. With the sunken boat he could grab a sleeping bag, emergency kit, apparatus for the production of drinking water and the management Dougal Robertson survival at sea. Unplanned "cruise" lasted 76 days, until April 20, 1982 issued a raft to the island of Marie Galante, where Stephen discovered fishermen.