Il y a un gars légendaire qui a survécu à un stourdissant 438 jours perdu en mer. José Salvador Alvarenga a été échoué dans l'océan Pacifique, dérivant sur plus de 6 000 miles ! Il a survécu en mangeant du poisson cru, des oiseaux, et du sang de tortue - parle de compétences de survie extrêmes. Le voyage en radeau de l'homme s'est transformé en un conte épique de résilience, et je parie que son guide de survie serait un best-seller. C'est là un véritable jeu de survie de niveau supérieur ! #OceanOdyssey #SurvivorChronicles
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00:00 A story that will certainly give you shivers
00:02 about a young American navigator
00:04 audacious named Tammy Oldham Ashcraft.
00:07 In 1983, when she was only 23 years old,
00:12 she went through a real journey.
00:14 Accompanied by Richard Sharp, her British companion,
00:17 she was in charge of sailing from Tahiti to San Diego in California
00:20 to deliver a luxury yacht.
00:22 But we all know how the ocean can show itself,
00:25 it is not always a long quiet river.
00:27 20 days after the start of the trip,
00:30 the two turtles were caught in a category 4 hurricane
00:34 with monstrous waves and violent winds.
00:37 Even if they were well faced with the waves,
00:40 the yacht ended up turning around like a beach ball
00:43 while it was caught between two waves.
00:46 The last thing engraved in Tammy's memory
00:49 before spending the next 27 hours stranded
00:51 is Richard screaming
00:53 as a huge wave hit their boat.
00:56 Later, she would tell her tormenting story in a book
01:00 which would then be adapted for cinema.
01:02 Tammy already had a solid experience in navigation
01:06 before embarking on the fatal journey.
01:09 She was very competent
01:10 and had already crossed the Pacific twice.
01:13 Leaving Tahiti for San Diego,
01:15 their journey first went smoothly,
01:18 but a few weeks later,
01:20 problems began to arise.
01:22 A tropical wind from Panama rose
01:24 and before they even realized it,
01:26 the storm was heading west, gaining in intensity.
01:30 Our duo had to struggle to reach a safe area,
01:35 the hurricane was moving at an incredible speed.
01:38 And to make matters worse,
01:39 the hurricane, usually short-lived,
01:41 lasted a long time.
01:43 Facing huge waves
01:45 and hurricane winds would be enough to give nightmares to anyone.
01:48 The boat was badly handled
01:50 and despite their preparation,
01:52 struggling with a sea of sand was an insurmountable task.
01:56 The boat was floating in the air
01:58 above the imposing waves to fall violently,
02:01 shaking the whole structure.
02:03 Richard was at the cockpit,
02:05 tied with a safety harness,
02:07 as he was zigzagging between the massive waves.
02:11 But then,
02:12 they found themselves caught in the waves of the Celerate,
02:14 these monstrous anomalies that arise from nowhere.
02:18 Such a wave caused the ship to execute a 360-degree barrel.
02:22 And that's the last thing Tami remembered.
02:25 When she regained her senses,
02:26 Richard was nowhere to be found.
02:28 The safety harness supposed to hold him to the boat was broken.
02:33 Having no one nearby to detect these distress signals,
02:36 Tami found herself alone with a long-distance radio damaged
02:39 by two weeks of uninterrupted whistling by the waves.
02:42 All she had left was a very high-frequency radio,
02:45 VHF, short-range,
02:47 which was supposed to return the soul after five days
02:49 due to the damage caused by the water.
02:51 She was alone and completely cut off from the world.
02:54 Tami had to rely on her basic tools to navigate to Hawaii,
02:58 a sextant and trigonometric tables.
03:01 By using the position of the sun,
03:03 she was able to determine her latitude.
03:05 And once she found her watch,
03:07 she was also able to determine her length.
03:09 It took time,
03:11 but she made it to Hawaii.
03:13 Throughout the period when she was lost at sea,
03:16 Tami has shown how ingenious she was.
03:20 She remembers trying to get the engine running again,
03:24 but some parts of the boat had melted on the propeller shaft.
03:27 Although she was good at mechanics,
03:29 she could not waste time trying to repair something
03:32 that seemed potentially irreparable.
03:35 Instead, she relied on her training as a crew master.
03:39 Tami also kept a journal of her time at sea,
03:42 always aware that if she did not get out of it,
03:45 it could be the only clue to what had really happened.
03:48 By rereading the journal,
03:50 she admitted that her mental state had been seriously tested.
03:54 But despite everything,
03:55 she was able to demonstrate that the instinct for human survival
03:58 was incredibly strong.
03:59 She wanted to live.
04:01 The hero of our next story
04:03 is a man named Steve Callahan.
04:06 His story, although it resembles a Hollywood movie scenario,
04:09 is almost unreal.
04:12 In 1982, Steve took part in a sailing race alone
04:16 across the immense Atlantic Ocean.
04:19 He entrusted his fate to a ship he had designed himself
04:22 and proudly named the Napoleon Solo.
04:25 It was a robust and reliable boat,
04:27 designed to resist storms and defy waves.
04:31 But an unpredictable time set in,
04:33 which tore the fleet apart and sank many boats.
04:36 Steve had to get on board
04:38 and sail the Napoleon Solo in Spain
04:40 for emergency repairs.
04:42 After repairing the boat,
04:44 Steve left again,
04:45 this time by setting sail on the Canary Islands.
04:49 He was determined to cross the Atlantic
04:51 to reach the sandy beaches of Antigua.
04:54 Unfortunately, his boat was hit again by violent winds,
04:58 leaving him considerably damaged.
05:00 Steve had no choice but to abandon his ship,
05:03 and he quickly embarked on an inflatable lifeboat.
05:06 Steve decided not to give up without fighting.
05:10 Before the Napoleon Solo
05:11 sank permanently in the depths of the Atlantic,
05:14 he dived several times in the tumultuous waters
05:17 to save what he could.
05:18 With a few essential items on board,
05:21 he fought against hunger, thirst and loneliness
05:24 for the next 76 days.
05:26 Fishermen finally found him
05:29 and took him to the nearest hospital
05:31 where he was able to begin his convalescence.
05:33 Now,
05:35 we could think that this is where Steve's story ends.
05:38 His incredible survival saga
05:40 has been shared in all the world's sailing magazines,
05:43 presented in many television shows
05:45 and immortalized in his own book.
05:48 But the record for the longest time
05:49 never to drift at sea
05:51 was beaten by a man named José Salvador Alvarenga.
05:54 We are talking about an individual with incredible resilience
05:57 and whose tenacity and will to survive
06:00 would quickly become legendary.
06:02 It is because he stayed drifting
06:04 for 438 endless days.
06:07 A professional fisherman,
06:08 José was not unfamiliar with the unpredictable moods of the sea.
06:12 His most difficult adventure
06:13 began one day like any other, in 2012.
06:16 It was the day when José and his fishing companion
06:19 headed to the shores of a picturesque fishing village
06:22 named Costa Azul in Mexico.
06:25 It was the first time they traveled together.
06:28 However, life had a bad surprise for them.
06:31 Shortly after leaving the comfort of the coast,
06:33 they were caught in a storm.
06:36 She swung their little boat like a toy,
06:38 making it deviate from its cape.
06:40 The engine of the boat
06:42 and most of their electronic equipment on board
06:44 were damaged.
06:46 José, not letting himself be disassembled,
06:48 managed to call his boss for help
06:49 before the communication device broke down.
06:52 But the response was as unencouraging as their situation.
06:55 For five relentless days,
06:57 the storm led them astray.
06:59 When the skies finally cleared up,
07:02 José and his companion were lost,
07:04 without any idea of their position
07:06 or how to get home.
07:08 To make matters worse,
07:09 the storm had taken away most of their fishing equipment,
07:12 leaving them with only simple survival tools.
07:14 Their boat had no sails,
07:16 engines or rams.
07:18 Month after month, they drifted aimlessly.
07:21 Their subsistence came from our good old Mother Nature.
07:24 Rainwater and a mix of marine creatures
07:27 like fish, turtles and other birds.
07:30 After four long months, José lost his friend,
07:33 but he decided to continue,
07:35 hoping that he would be rescued one day.
07:37 He did not suspect that he was far from being at the end of his journey.
07:41 He tried to report to all the ships passing by,
07:44 but his desperate calls were useless.
07:47 Resting only on rainwater
07:49 and what the sea offered him as food,
07:52 José kept track of his days
07:54 through the changing phases of the moon.
07:56 It was only a little over a year after the disastrous storm
07:59 that José finally saw the Earth.
08:02 His heart was filled with hope.
08:04 He abandoned his faithful boat,
08:07 preferring to swim to the shore.
08:09 To his great surprise,
08:10 he found himself on one of the Marshall Islands,
08:13 located on the other side of the Pacific
08:15 relative to his starting point.
08:17 José was taken to the hospital
08:19 where he slowly but surely regained his strength.
08:22 Upon his return, his family declared
08:24 that they had never given up on finding him
08:26 and were at the mercy of the angels
08:27 learning the news of his discovery.
08:30 However, this story of survival seemed so improbable
08:33 that many have questioned it.
08:36 Could a man really survive
08:38 so long at sea on a tiny boat?
08:41 However, there were those who offered a counterpoint.
08:45 Experts have advanced that the fresh meat of birds and turtles
08:48 that Alvarenga claimed to have consumed in abundance
08:52 could have contained enough vitamin C to ensure survival.