drinking urine to survive.

[Guest guest]

I also heard that in a Turkish earthquake a survivor living under his desk

for 10 days, drank his own urine, and he survived, but his wife, daughter,

mother, wouldn't and they died.

 

Sailors drank urine on liferaft to survive

December 20, 2005 - 8:14AM

 

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/12/20/1134840820725.html?from=top5

The sister of a man who licked rainwater and drank urine to survive 11 days

in a liferaft off Vietnam says her brother would do anything to survive.

Australian sailor Mark Smith and New Zealander Steve Freeman took to their

tiny rubber liferaft 11 days ago when their yacht sank in huge seas south of

Hong Kong on a delivery voyage to Australia.

Moments later another big wave swept away their survival gear and they spent

11 days licking rain water off the liferaft and drinking their urine to

survive.

They were spotted by Vietnamese fisherman and taken to a small hospital on

an island off Vietnam.

Freeman's sister, Karen Scowen, said last night she was overcome to learn

what her brother had gone through to survive.

She told The New Zealand Herald the family should not worry about him,

because he was a survivor.

"He would do anything to survive," an emotional Scowen said.

"He's the baby of our family and he's the headstrong fighter," she said.