Adrift (book)
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Adrift is a 1986 memoir by Steven Callahan
Steven Callahan
Steven Callahan is an American author, naval architect, inventor, and sailor most notable for having survived for 76 days adrift on the Atlantic Ocean in a liferaft...

 about his survival in a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...

, which lasted 76 days, a staggering ordeal alone at sea in an inflatable raft.

In 1982, Callahan set sail in a sloop
Sloop
A sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....

, participating in a race from the Canary Islands
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...

 to the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...

. After six days the sloop sank and for the next two and a half months he had to live off fish he caught and water he distilled and had to fight off sharks. When he damaged one of the rubber rings of the raft, he had to improvise a repair with a piece of foam, a fork handle, and lengths of rope. His experience was used to redesign life rafts.
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