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Richard Van Pham is a US citizen (originally from Vietnam) who survived three and a half months adrift in the Pacific Ocean from late May to September 2002. ==Set adrift== 62-year-old Pham set out from Long Beach, California on his 26-foot sail boat ''Sea Breeze'' (a Columbia 26 Mark I) heading for Catalina Island in late May 2002 - which should have taken about three hours. He lived on the boat in between fishing trips. During the journey he claimed a sudden storm wrecked his mast and ruined his outboard motor. It later transpired he did not have a working VHF radio on board his boat. As he had no family, and had not filed a float plan, he was not reported missing. Pham said he had survived on fish and birds and drinking rain water caught in a five-gallon bucket. He had caught turtles and used meat to trap sea birds such as cormorants. Using evaporated sea water he was able to preserve the meat he caught. Pham's boat did have solar power installed which allowed him to watch videos on a small television. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Van Pham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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