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  2. Deborah Scaling Kiley - Wikipedia

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    Deborah Scaling Kiley (January 21, 1958 – August 13, 2012) [1] was an American sailor, author, motivational speaker, and businesswoman. She was the first American woman to complete the Whitbread Round the World Race. In 1982, she famously survived a boating accident off the coast of North Carolina, which became the basis for her book ...

  3. Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea - Wikipedia

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    English. Genre. Nonfiction, Memoir. Publication date. December 31, 1986. Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost At Sea is a 1986 memoir by Steven Callahan about his survival alone in a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean, which lasted 76 days. [1]

  4. José Salvador Alvarenga - Wikipedia

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    José Salvador Alvarenga ( Spanish: [xoˈse salβaˈðoɾ alβaˈɾeŋɡa]; born c. 1975) is a Salvadoran fisherman and author who was found on January 30, 2014, aged 36 or 37, [nb 1] on the Marshall Islands after spending 14 months adrift in a fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean beginning on November 17, 2012. He survived mainly on a diet of raw ...

  5. Tami Oldham Ashcraft - Wikipedia

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    Tami Oldham Ashcraft. Born. Tami Lee Oldham. Known for. Surviving 41 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean. Map of the 1983 shipwreck. Tami Lee Oldham Ashcraft ( née Oldham) is an American sailor and author who, in 1983, survived 41 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean. [1] Her story inspired the 2018 film Adrift .

  6. Dougal Robertson - Wikipedia

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    Edinburgh, Scotland. Died. 1992 (aged 67–68) Scotland. Occupation (s) Author, sailor. Known for. Surviving being adrift at sea with family members. Dougal Robertson (1924–1992) was a Scottish author and sailor who with his family survived being adrift at sea after their schooner was holed by a pod of orcas in 1972, one of many documented ...

  7. Bahia Bakari - Wikipedia

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    Evry, France. Nationality. French. Bahia Bakari (born 15 August 1996) is a French woman who was the sole survivor of Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310, which crashed into the Indian Ocean near the north coast of Grande Comore, Comoros on 30 June 2009, killing the other 152 people on board. [1] [2] [3] 12-year-old [nb 1] Bakari, who had little ...

  8. Unbroken (book) - Wikipedia

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    Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is a 2010 non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken is a biography of World War II veteran Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in the Pacific Theater, spent 47 days drifting on a raft, and then survived more than two and a half years as a prisoner of war (POW) in three Japanese POW ...

  9. Steven Callahan - Wikipedia

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    California. Nationality. American. Occupation (s) Author, naval architect, inventor, and sailor. Known for. Surviving for 76 days adrift on the Atlantic Ocean; Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea. Steven Callahan (born 6 February 1952) is an American author, naval architect, inventor, and sailor. In 1981, he survived for 76 days adrift on the ...

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