76 Days Adrift in the Atlantic in a Five-Foot Rubber Raft | TripMag Stories

On the night of 5 February 1982, six days out of the Canary Islands, an American sailor's small sloop was hit by an unknown object and sank in under five minutes. He spent the next 76 days drifting alone in a five-foot inflatable life raft across the Atlantic, surviving on speared fish and a tiny solar still.