ENDURANCE


Confidence is the key to endurance in life. The belief till the end can make a huge impact at the end. Many survival stories in the sea are floating constantly floating and ready at any time to tell their story. In that way, Steve Callahan's story was one of the epic survival that teaches them confidence and the way he endured in the situation.


ADRIFT


Steve Callahan was very sad in his life and got a divorce. He planned to celebrate this event heavily and change this moment as a lifelong memorable moment for him. To make it special, he took the sea route or the sea journey. Sea route was chosen and intended to travel all alone in his boat, not with the crowd. The route was from New Port to England and from there to Antigua Island. He took his Napolean boat and started his journey in the Atlantic Sea. He was completely enjoying them by singing, dancing with music, and experiencing good food. While moving towards England, he was noticed with some small flaw or problem in his boat but didn't consider at the most when compared to the enjoyment. When he reached England, he corrected the boat's flaw and started his journey towards Antigua island by entering some other small cities nearby England. 

                                                        Source: - Mariners' Museum

As his journey was completely good and enjoyable, a sudden cyclone created with heavy rain and his boat was moving in the water with him. He suddenly opened the Lifeboat and moved in the water to get some important things he wanted to travel. In that dark, he could get some things that were in his mind. Then, he swam up and entered the lifeboat. He had a look into the things he bought. It contained a fishing tackle, Water purifier, Speargun, raisins, eggs, Cabbage, and Baked beans. With this, he navigated his boat towards West Indies with the help of the stars. This route was just an approximation, not an accurate route. He tried to extend his foods for the most time and started to become thinner than before. His foodstuff was all over and tried to catch some fish but no fish was stuck in his fishing tackle. He began to purify water with the help of a water purifier, for his bad luck, his water purifier didn't work properly. Sudden rain was pouring, he collected water in various things and continued his journey with some rainwater. Under his lifeboat, algae began to accumulate and fishes started coming around his boat and as days passed, the algae accumulation was more and big fishes were coming chasing the small fish. He started to clear these algae and sent all the fish away. He was completely devasted and the energy he had was extremely low. When the ship moved far away, he tried his best to lift the speargun to show a signal but the ship was so high and the light from the speargun didn't reach that height. Nearly 6-7 boats crossed him and he ran down of power. On the night of the 75th day, he was bedridden and left his head to peep out and continued his journey with half-eye closed. His eyes were getting closed as time passed, when he opened his eyes after some time, he found himself to be in the hospital. He was bought by a fisherman who was fishing there. After getting alright, he moved to his hometown and started writing this story as a book and published it too. Many interviews were arranged and even stories were made realistic in the movie ' Life of Pi' with the help of Steve. The book he wrote was ' Adrift '.


                                            Source: - Amazon


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