Episode 3 "76 Days Adrift" - Steven Callahan's Ocean Odyssey

Episode 3 "76 Days Adrift" - Steven Callahan's Ocean Odyssey Summary: In 1982, American sailor Steven Callahan's small boat Napoleon Solo sank during a solo Atlantic crossing after being struck by an unknown object in a storm. Cast adrift on a 6-foot life raft, Callahan found himself alone in the open ocean over 800 miles from the Caribbean. For the next 76 days, he survived on captured rainwater and raw fish speared with a makeshift harpoon as his tiny raft drifted 1,800 miles across the Atlantic. Battling dehydration, starvation, sharks, and equipment failures, Callahan maintained detailed journals of his ordeal, even as his body wasted away and his raft deteriorated beneath him. His survival—the longest solo sea survival in recorded history—required extraordinary ingenuity, including creating tools from salvaged equipment and navigating by the stars despite limited visibility in his low-riding raft.

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