This is a momentous read describing Steven Callahan's 76 day survival at sea alone on a rubber life raft in 1982. After his boat sank about 100 miles west of the African coast, he traveled the currents to arrive at the West Indies over two and a half months later. The story forms on a razor's edg...
I swing my equipment bag over to them. Then they grab me with helping hands and I clamber aboard. I slip into the bottom of the boat and sit among dozens of dorados and a few kingfish and barracuda. I recognize my doggies. There is the one I plucked from the sea—"There, is that what you want, stu...