the man who survived 438 days at sea?
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Salvador Alvarenga, who survived for 438 days adrift at sea, is now being sued by his fellow fisherman's family amid accusations that he ate Ezequiel Cordoba's corpse.
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Man Who Swam the Amazon: 3,274 Miles On The World's Deadliest River Paperback – Oct. 1 2007. On Sunday, April 8, 200 7, 52-year old Martin Strel completed the first-ever swim of the 3,274-mile-long Amazon River.
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Jesus, as part of his spiritual preparation, went into the wilderness and fasted 40 days and 40 nights, according to the Gospels.
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The Boy Who Sailed Around the World Alone. Recounts the voyage of Robin Lee Graham, a California sixteen-year-old, who spent nearly five years sailing alone around the world.
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Man Survives Bear Attack but Loses Face. Wes Perkins was the luckiest man to walk the earth, this guy survived the most gruesome bear attack ever. The bear attack was so horrific, hard to look at or to think about.
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Utnapishtim, in the Babylonian Gilgamesh epic, survivor of a mythological flood whom Gilgamesh consults about the secret of immortality. Utnapishtim was the only man to escape death, since, having preserved human and animal life in the great boat he built, he and his wife were deified by the god Enlil.
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May 10, 1964 (Sunday) Singer and film actor Frank Sinatra almost drowned in an undertow while swimming in Hawaii, where he had been filming None but the Brave. One of the co-stars of the movie, Brad Dexter, swam out to rescue Sinatra and helped save his life.
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A British man who spent 5 months at sea has become the first person to swim 1,780 miles around the island of Great Britain. Ross Edgley, 33, set off from Kent, on the southeast coast of England, on June 1. After swimming 1,780 miles, he arrived back on shore Sunday for the first time.
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In 2006 Cracknell and TV presenter Ben Fogle rowed across the Atlantic in 49 days. Three years later the pair joined with Ed Coats to come second in the 481-mile Amundsen Omega 3 race to the South Pole.
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Explorer The Seas. The ship is superb . Clean balcony cabin was very comfy . Steward could not been any more helpful and could not fault him he worked exceptionally hard came in to cabin three times a day .
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The human body needs food and water to survive. A human can go for more than three weeks without food — Mahatma Gandhi survived 21 days of complete starvation — but water is a different story.
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Endurance athlete Mark Beaumont has smashed the record for circumnavigation of the world on a bike. Mark Beaumont has broken the world record for cycling around the world - by 44 days. The 34-year-old, from Perthshire, arrived in Paris one day ahead of schedule having cycled the 18,000-mile route in 79 days.
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The Mariana Trench is one of the least explored places on Earth. ... Known since as Challenger Deep, it was not visited for nearly ten years. Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh descended in a submersible called the Trieste, which could withstand over 16,000 pounds of pressure per square inch.
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Mahatma Gandhi's longest of many fasts lasted 21 days. But the longest-lasting hunger strike in recorded history was undertaken by an Irish political prisoner, Terence MacSwiney, whose 74-day strike ended with his death in 1920.
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Lecomte was the first person to swim across the Atlantic Ocean in 1998, covering about 3,700 miles in 73 days. He has spent seven years preparing for his upcoming journey and plans to swim eight hours a day. “You learn a lot about yourself.
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Ulysses was so persuasive that his crew was literally willing to sail to the ends of the earth with him. As he recalls his words, Ulysses recognizes that his persuasiveness is a good part of why he is now in Hell: Many of his crew died on that voyage.
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The oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified is Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) of France, who lived to the age of 122 years, 164 days. The oldest verified man ever is Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013) of Japan, who lived to the age of 116 years, 54 days.