The British family drifted on the sea for 38 days and survived by eating turtle meat.

The British family drifted on the sea for 38 days and survived by eating turtle meat.

Robertson's family photo taken on the schooner's schooner.

Douglas Robertson, a British man, has revealed in detail the legendary experience of his Robertson family who had been in a boat for 38 days on the sea, drinking turtle blood and eating turtle meat.

According to reports, Douglas's father said Garr was a former sailor. In 1971, Garr sold a poorly run family farm and raised money to buy a 13 metre schooner, "the" "sawest". Then he traveled around the world in January 1971 with his wife, len, 3 sons and a girl student named Robin Williams.

When Robertson's family sailed for 17 months, their ships were attacked by 3 killer whales in the waters near Central America. The hull of the "sawest" sailing ship was hit and split, and the entire sailboat sank in the sea in a few minutes.

6 people aboard the ship scrambled up and down an inflatable rubber dinghy before the sinking of the sailboat. However, only 10 days of drinking water and a packet of onions, a few oranges, lemons and a few sweets are enough on their boats. 17 days after the 6 survivors drifted on the sea for 17 days, the inflatable rubber dinghy began to deflate, and 6 survivors had to crawl into the 2.7 Edna long lifeboat.

Garr cut a paddle into a spear and killed 13 turtles. 6 survivors on the lifeboat relied on drinking turtles and eating turtle meat. Garr also killed a 1.5 metre long shark with a spear. Drinking turtle blood can never quench thirst, and everyone on the lifeboat is in a state of extreme thirst and dehydration. Although the lifeboat was gathered with some rain, len, who had once worked as a nurse, knew that the rainwater mixed with turtles' blood and debris remains polluted. Drinking directly will definitely cause poisoning. Later, Lynn came up with an extreme way to quench her thirst: she sausage on the lifeboat pipe, and the sewage on the ship serves as an enema. By absorbing water from the rectum, the toxicity of sewage will not be absorbed by the digestive system.

In July 23, 1972, 6 survivors who had been drifting for 38 days in the boundless sea finally met a Japanese ship and were lucky to be rescued.

Douglas, 55, now works as an accountant at a South London College. He has written a book about their legendary experiences. Last November, the Robertson family donated the "Edna Mel" lifeboat that had saved their lives to the National Maritime Museum of Cornwall. So far, more than 400 thousand tourists have visited the legendary lifeboat.