Adrift 4 Months, Sailor Spurns Rescue, Wants to Do It His Way
A Norwegian sailor has been found alive and well in the mid-Atlantic after drifting for four months after the engine on his fishing boat failed, the newspaper Aftenposten said today.
Einar Geir Einarsen, 45, had not been heard of since setting out alone from Lisbon on Aug. 31, bound for Trinidad. His family, who reported him missing in December, said he had expected to make the crossing in two months.
The newspaper said Einarsen was found Saturday by a Liberian-registered gas tanker. He appeared haggard but fit and told the ship’s crew he had lived on rainwater and fish for the last three weeks after running out of provisions.
“He took on new supplies, then shoved off,” the newspaper quoted the ship’s captain as saying.
Einarsen, who refused further help, estimated it would take the current another 40 days to carry him to Trinidad.
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