Moment – imagine being left alone drifting at sea and watching your friends sail into the distance With just a little bad luck Brett Archibald could have died immediately According to the experts he should have died within eight to ten hours But he chose not to die Instead Brett endured – the ocean the elements the creatures of the deep a.
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PDF Alone PDFEPUB #223; #10003; ahalico #10003; alone download, Alone PDF/EPUBThis is a stunning story of man against the sea when Brett Archibald suddenly blacks out and goes overboard in a storm while on a trip with his buddies to do some surfing on the first night of a 10 day charter in Sumatra Indonesia The worst part is that no one notices it and it's not discovered for about 8 hours and by then the boat has traveled a long distance When Brett comes to in the ocean choking on salt water he's in for the battle of h
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PDF Alone PDFEPUB #223; #10003; ahalico #10003; alone download, Alone PDF/EPUBWhat a gripping read Fans of Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken will devour this memoir Imagine puking your guts out from food poisoning in the middle of the night on a boat during a storm in remote Indonesian waters losing consciousness and waking up plunged into the sea as your boat sails obliviously away This was Brett Archibald's fate He was swept over with nothing but what he was wearing shorts and a t shirt He was already dehydrated from the food poisoning How he survived 28 hours was a combo of luck miracle and dogged determination The story shifts from Brett's perspective to his family's back home as they wait on edge about his fate his friends on his boat as they try to rescue him and the people on the boat that finally do rescue him The chances of someone surviving after 10 hou
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PDF Alone PDFEPUB #223; #10003; ahalico #10003; alone download, Alone PDF/EPUBI won this book in a book giveaway Honestly I was intrigued by the chapters where Brett is at sea and describing what happened at each hour There are so many people that were mentioned in this book that it was hard to keep track of who people were at times The chapters about his friends and different boats aiding the search were quite boring His survival is incredible and his resilience in such circumstances is very commendable A good read for someone who enjoys true survival stories
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PDF Alone PDFEPUB #223; #10003; ahalico #10003; alone download, Alone PDF/EPUBWhen I took sailing lessons overboard drills always made me a little nervous as you couldn't help but imagine the worst case scenario This powerful true story was the worst case scenario every boater fears It is almost unimaginable for someone to go overboard into a wild sea during a storm at night And yet it happened and the author Brett Archibald through sheer grit faith and determination lived to tell his tale against incredible odds I listened to this audio book over a period of a couple of weeks at night in bed in the dark when I couldn't sleep Not the best choice for insomnia relief as the story is so compelling and horrifying The resolution when it finally came made every nerve in my body buzz it was that electrifying A story perfec
PDF Alone PDFEPUB #223; #10003; ahalico #10003; alone download, Alone PDF/EPUBIn April 2013 Brett Archibald a 50 year old South African businessman was on a surf charter boat off the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia It was the middle of the night and the seas were storming Archibald had food poisoning and went on deck to be sick He lost his footing fell off the boat and no one saw He spent nearly 29 hours in the Indian Ocean before a miracle happened That miracle was Tony “Doris” Eltherington captain of an Australian charter and a seafaring legend who acted on a hunch and found Archibald bobbing in the vast expanseHow Archibald survived how his friends and Eltherington’s boat and crew persisted and how his wife and family never gave up believing he would survive is chronicled in Alone – Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean Already weak from dehydration Archibald fought off raging seas a shark attack dive bombing seagulls stinging jellyfish and man o