Missing diver found ashore - Trinidad Island

[tursiops]

He swam 44 miles in 16 h? I'm skeptical. The ironman Triathalon swimmers go 2.4 miles in about 31 minutes, which would be about 10 h to get ashore if they could keep the pace. Long distance swimmers - like to Catalina Island - spend about 12h to go 20 miles. A typical 10km time is 2h45m, which would extrapolate to about 20h if you could keep the pace. I'm skeptical.

 

[JackOfDiamonds]

He swam 44 miles in 16 h? I'm skeptical. The ironman Triathalon swimmers go 2.4 miles in about 31 minutes, which would be about 10 h to get ashore if they could keep the pace. Long distance swimmers - like to Catalina Island - spend about 12h to go 20 miles. A typical 10km time is 2h45m, which would extrapolate to about 20h if you could keep the pace. I'm skeptical.

Only way this will be believable is if he managed to hitch a ride on a current

 

[fsardone]

Assuming the report is accurate (big assumption), he had no smb (or other signaling device) and drank seawater to stay hydrated. Let's just say that a lot of luck was involved in his survival.

Drinking sea water is never a good idea. Doing it for the time he is claiming would have had serious consequences, I believe.

Effects of Drinking Sea Water

 

[Dan]

Assuming the report is accurate (big assumption), he had no smb (or other signaling device) and drank seawater to stay hydrated. Let's just say that a lot of luck was involved in his survival.

You don’t want to drink saltwater. “Human kidneys can only make urine that is less salty than salt water. Therefore, to get rid of all the excess salt taken in by drinking seawater, you have to urinate more water than you drank. Eventually, you die of dehydration even as you become thirstier.”

Can humans drink seawater?

 

[RyanT]

You don’t want to drink saltwater. “Human kidneys can only make urine that is less salty than salt water. Therefore, to get rid of all the excess salt taken in by drinking seawater, you have to urinate more water than you drank. Eventually, you die of dehydration even as you become thirstier.”

Correct....just....don't do it.

 

[Scared Silly]

He swam 44 miles in 16 h?

He said at about midnight his nephew looked at the navigator on his watch and noticed that he was 44 miles off the coast. ... About 3 am, Bugros swam up ashore but because of complete exhaustion and dehydration, he could not move until daybreak.

I am even more skeptical if the above reporting correct. 44 miles in 3 hours??? Gotta be typo and it was 4 miles.

That said, he survived. And that is important.

 

[tursiops]

I am even more skeptical if the above reporting correct. 44 miles in 3 hours???

Yeah, not even with a strong current!

 

[Scared Silly]

Not really related other than being rescued far off shore: Dog rescued 220km off Thai coast

 

[chillyinCanada]

Aw, look.at that face! I could adopt.

 

[Shasta_man]

Somewhere is a Thai fisherman wondering how his dog got on the Internet