Even More Bad Luck
He had already survived an unbelievable number of days out at sea, when something happened that was going to make a hard situation even worse. His raft had been ripped by one of his spears while he was fishing, and he had to pump air into it every so often just to keep afloat. He says, “I was at my lowest. I broke down and gave up. But then I got scared by the thought I would be dead in a few hours; I found a way to fix the raft and it felt like the biggest victory of my life.”
