These idiots actually made the front page headline in the Calgary Herald this morning. That's Calgary - Alberta - Canada - somewhere north of Montana. How did 2 morons trying for a Darwin Award in South Carolina end up on the front page here?

Judging by the picture, the 15-year old had very bad sunburn, so I'm inclined to doubt it was a publicity stunt.

But the fact that neither of them knew that the sun sets in the west, and all they had to do was wait till it went down and then angle towards it, boggles the mind.

Oh, wait - they thought they were off the coast of Africa, so they were probably heading East instead <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Hmm, let's see - approximately 1500 miles in 6 days, that would require a sustained speed of over 10 miles per hour for 144 hours in a 12-foot single-sail boat. Looks like they slept through arithmetic AND geography in school.