On October 9, 2005, five...
On October 9, 2005, five Mexican fisherman set out from San Blas, Mexico, to look for
sharks. Unfortunately, their 27-foot fiberglass boat developed motor problems and they
were left adrift. Two men jumped off the boat in an attempt to swim for safety and
drowned. The other three men, Jesus Vadaña, Lucio Rendon, and Salvador Ordoñez, did
their best to survive. And survive they did. They ate raw fish, sea gulls, and ducks if they
could snare them, and drank rainwater. There were stretches as long as fifteen days that
they went without food. They read their Bible every day.
