Chapter 60I awoke once during the night. I pushed the canopy aside and looked out. The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly c...
Chapter 61The next morning I was not too wet and I was feeling strong. I thought this was remarkable considering the strain I was under and how little...
Chapter 62I slept in fits that night. Shortly before sunrise I gave up trying to fall asleep again and lifted myself on an elbow. I spied with my litt...
Chapter 63The Robertson family survived thirty-eight days at sea. Captain Bligh of the celebrated mutinous Bounty and his fellow castaways survived fo...
Chapter 64My clothes disintegrated, victims of the sun and the salt. First they became gauze-thin. Then they tore until only the seams were left. Last...
Chapter 65I spent hours trying to decipher the lines in the survival manual on navigation. Plain and simple explanations on living off the sea were gi...
Chapter 66I fished with a variety of hooks at a variety of depths for a variety of fish, from deep-sea fishing with large hooks and many sinkers to su...
Chapter 67The underside of the raft became host to a multitude of sea life, like the net but smaller in form. It started with a soft green algae that ...
Chapter 68My sleep pattern changed. Though I rested all the time, I rarely slept longer than an hour or so at a stretch, even at night. It was not the...
Chapter 69On many nights I was convinced I saw a light in the distance. Each time I set off a flare. When I had used up the rocket flares, I expended ...