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:: Oguri Jukichi. Japanese captain Oguri Jukichi holds the Guinness World Record for the longest known time that anyone has survived adrift at sea. Joined by one of his sailors, the skipper managed to survive for approximately 484 days after their cargo ship was damaged in a storm off the Japanese coast in October 1813 ...

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The remarkable tale of a British woman pulled from the sea alive 10 hours after falling from a cruise ship off the coast of Croatia is one of incredible fortune and - on the part of her rescuers - heroism. But more than that, it is a story of survival - and yet another example of how the human spirit can triumph over the uncompromising dangers of the ocean. From British sailor Tony Bullimore, to a woman whose brutal ordeal in the middle of the Pacific inspired a Hollywood film, Sky News charts some of the most eye-opening survival stories at sea.

:: Jose Salvador Alvarenga

Fisherman Jose Salvador Alvarenga had been stranded in the Pacific for more than a year by the time he returned to his home in El Salvador in February 2014. The then 37-year-old washed ashore in the Marshall Islands, having set sail on a fishing trip from Mexico in late 2012. When Ebon islanders discovered him some 8,000 miles away from where his journey began, Mr Alvarenga - complete with shaggy hair and a bushy beard - was unable to walk without assistance. Upon his return to El Salvador, his cousin described him as "a warrior" and his mother said it was a "divine miracle". He later travelled back to Mexico for an emotional meeting with the family of his shipmate, Ezequiel Cordova, who starved to death four months into the ordeal and fell overboard.

:: Louis Jordan

What should have been a simple fishing trip became a desperate two-month test of endurance for Louis Jordan, who was rescued off the US coast in March 2015. He was spotted sitting on the upturned hull of his stricken sailboat - a 35ft vessel called Angel - about 200 miles (321km) off North Carolina. The German-registered Houston Express took him aboard and passed him on to the US Coastguard, who took him to a hospital in Virginia. Remarkably, a shoulder injury and dehydration was not enough to stop him being discharged just a few hours later. His father, Frank, put his survival down to strong constitution and religious beliefs, which he said had made up for his inexperience as a sailor.

:: Tony Bullimore

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Sailor and businessman Tony Bullimore famously survived for four days at sea when his boat capsized during the solo round-the-world Vendee Globe race in 1997. Mr Bullimore - a former member of the Royal Marines - was feared drowned by the time he was dramatically rescued by the Australian navy in the freezing waters of the Southern Ocean. It emerged that he had managed to survive on a single bar of chocolate, 2,200km off the coast of Australia.

Another contestant, Canadian Gerry Roufs, died during the same race.

Mr Bullimore - known as the "British bulldog" - was considered a Bristol legend by the time he died in July 2018.

:: Tami Oldham Ashcraft

After setting off from Tahiti in the autumn of 1983, on a boat bound for San Diego, the couple ended up sailing into the devastating Hurricane Raymond. When the full force of its winds struck, their vessel was quickly became a wreckage and Mr Sharp was lost at sea. But Ms Ashcraft - whose head was split open and leg left battered and bruised - was able to fashion a makeshift sail from the remains of the boat and set a course for Hawaii. She managed to survive for 41 days, powered by peanut butter and sheer willpower, before being picked up off the coast by a research vessel.

:: Oguri Jukichi

Japanese captain Oguri Jukichi holds the Guinness World Record for the longest known time that anyone has survived adrift at sea. Joined by one of his sailors, the skipper managed to survive for approximately 484 days after their cargo ship was damaged in a storm off the Japanese coast in October 1813. They had been on a voyage from the central city of Toba to what is now Tokyo, but ended up drifting into the Pacific. After more than a year on the water, Mr Jukichi and his one remaining sailor were rescued by an American ship near California in March 1815. Both men managed to survive thanks a diet of distilled seawater and soy beans, with several hundred bags having been stored on their vessel, but the dozen other members of the crew died of scurvy.

:: Steven Callahan

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Having grown up with a love of boats and the prospect of an adventure at sea, Steven Callahan felt well equipped when the time came for him to sail across the Atlantic on a solo voyage aboard his own vessel - Napoleon Solo. Mr Callahan departed from Newport on Rhode Island in 1981 and successfully made it to Bermuda and then Cornwall, before setting off for Antigua as part of a sailing race from Penzance. Several other boats were sunk by hazardous weather and Napoleon Solo suffered too, but Mr Callahan was quick to make repairs and continue down the coasts of Spain and Portugal and on to the Canaries. It was between there and his ultimate goal of Antigua that Napoleon Solo was irreversibly damaged, reportedly from a collision with a whale, forcing Mr Callahan to abandon ship. He drifted away from the wreckage aboard an inflatable life raft, upon which he survived at sea for 76 days before being picked up by fishermen near the island of Marie Galante, south east of Guadeloupe.

:: Poon Lim

Chinese sailor Poon Lim was the sole survivor of British merchant ship SS Ben Lomond when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat in November 1942. He clambered aboard a wooden raft with a paltry supply of food and water, which he was forced to replenish by fishing, hunting birds and collecting rainwater over the course of his 133-day purgatory in the South Atlantic. Eventually, in April 1943, he was rescued by a trio of Brazilian fisherman at the mouth of the Amazon. King George VI bestowed on him a British Empire Medal upon his return to the UK, but Mr Lim moved to the US after the war and lived there until he died in Brooklyn in January 1991. Nobody is thought to have survived for longer at sea on a raft alone.

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