article_snippet.sent: But, in real life, it's hard to swallow the idea of a single person being stranded at sea for days, weeks, if not months and somehow living to talk about it.
article_snippet.sent: We're not talking about people who float aimlessly or run aground after running out of gas or being let down by faltering winds only to be picked up a few hours later by the U.S. Coast Guard.
article_snippet.sent: Much rarer are cases in which individuals become lost at sea long enough that individuals run out of whatever food and drinking water individuals'd brought aboard, if any.
article_snippet.sent: It's hard to say how many of these types of stories end sadly, with a sailor dying at sea, except that it is a much higher number than those that end in rescues.
article_snippet.sent: Sometimes people don't have to set off by boat to have the sea challenge people to the end.