Poon Lim
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Poon Lim BEM was a Chinese seafarer. He was born on the island of Hainan, China. In 1942–43 he survived 133 days alone in the South Atlantic.
Poon Lim on his raft, in a reconstruction for US Navy survival training
Poon Lim after his rescue, in conversation with Rear Admiral Julius A. Furer
Steven Callahan
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Steven Callahan is an American author, naval architect, inventor, and sailor. In 1981, he survived for 76 days adrift on the Atlantic Ocean in a liferaft. Callahan recounted his ordeal in the best-selling book Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea (1986), which was on The New York Times best-seller list for more than 36 weeks.
Callahan describes his experience of being adrift to students at North Yarmouth Academy in 2016