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Message: [QUOTE="Michael H. Standart, post: 33807, member: 79064"] >>but it is the last thing i would want to be adrift in an ocean in. << Damn right, you wouldn't want to be in one! An open boat out on the open ocean is about the most dangerous place you can possibly be short of actually being [i][b]in[/b][/i] the ocean itself. There's a reason for the interest in making a vessel be it's own lifeboat at least until a rescue ship can get on the scene to evacuate the people aboard. The reason being that your chances of survival are much greater if you can stay with the ship as long as possible. Taking to the boats is the court of very last resort and you do that only if staying with the ship looks like an even worse idea. Even then, it can bite and the Mary Celeste is an example of what can go wrong. Forget the nonsense written by idiot authors who are forever yakking about the Bermuda Triangle. These people took to their boat because some of the barrels of alcohol were found to be broken and the fumes presented a really substantial explosion hazard. Unfortunately for them, the wind carried the ship away, and powered only by oars, they had no chance of catching up. Lost out on the open ocean like that, they were never found even though the ship was several days later. [/QUOTE]