Their supplies: 12 liters of water (eight after the beach landing spill), two fishing handlines, 20 hooks, a stainless steel pot, a ferro rod, a multi-tool, two mylar emergency blankets, and 400 grams of emergency rations (crumbled).
By Day 5, Vasquez was showing early signs of hyponatremia: confusion, muscle cramps, a swollen tongue. She began recording voice notes into a dead phone, just to hear a human voice. On Day 8, a storm from the southeast threw debris onto the northern reef. Among the flotsam: a section of fiberglass hull, a shattered wooden pallet, and—miraculously—a 50-liter plastic water jug, unopened. It was from a Japanese long-liner, lost years ago. The water was brackish but potable after boiling and filtering through a cloth. stranded on santa astarta
By J.D. Mercer
In a journal entry dated Day 54, Vasquez wrote: "We are not being rescued. No one is coming. To be is to be forgotten. So tomorrow, we build a raft." Their supplies: 12 liters of water (eight after