Yes, it is amazing that this guy survived for 3.5 months collecting rain water and sea turtles and birds. You have to admire his stamina. <br><br>But I really see this as a failure in many ways, too. On a single day-sail he lost his mast, engine and radio? My guess it that the condition of that equipment must have been poor upon departure for all to fail at the same time. Nobody missed him? Even though he had rigged a small sail to the stub of the mast and could have made landfall in any easterly direction, he failed to do that? No backup radio, cell phone, flares or signal mirror? He was mighty lucky that the drug plane spotted him when it did, because apart from delaying his own death, it seems like he was doing very little to aid his recovery.<br><br>But maybe there is more to the story than I read. It would be interesting to read the book that will probably be written about it.