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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. Skeletons on the Zahara - Wikipedia

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    368 pp (first edition, hardcover) ISBN. 978-0-316-83514-5. Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival is a 2004 nonfiction book written by maritime historian Dean King. [1] [2] It is based on two of the survivors' journals, primarily Captain James Riley 's memoir Sufferings in Africa. [3] [4] To research the book, Dean King embarked on a ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 .

  7. 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 ...

  8. Maurice and Maralyn Bailey - Wikipedia

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    Known for. Surviving for 118 days adrift on the Pacific Ocean. Maurice and Maralyn Bailey were a British married couple who, in 1973, survived for 118 days on a rubber raft in the Pacific Ocean before being rescued. [1] Maralyn Bailey was born Maralyn Harrison on 24 April 1941 in Nottingham, England. Maralyn and Maurice married in 1963.

  9. 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 ...

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