Sea Facts

For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.

Poon Lim was a 25-year-old steward on a British merchant ship when a German U-boat torpedoed it in the South Atlantic. He grabbed a wooden life raft and drifted alone for 133 days. He fished. He drank bird blood. He killed a passing shark with an empty water jug. His record for longest solo survival on a raft has never been broken.