Surive the Savage Sea

Imagine being stranded on a life raft without much food or water. The desperation and fear that would race though your mind would be unimaginable. In the true story, Survive The Savage Sea, the Robertsons were stranded on a small raft in the ocean and struggled to survive.

The Robertons were starting to take a year long trip on their sailboat. Their plans changed, when a whale came up underneath the boat and broke a large hole in the bottom of their vessel. Shortly after the accident, once the Robertsons figured out that their boat was sinking, they gathered together as many supplies as they could, piled into their life raft, and from the raft the family watched as their fifty-foot sail boat sank into the sea.

For at least one month the Robertson family floated in the ocean on their small, partly covered life raft. With only enough food and water for three days and three nights, they thought that their fate was sealed, and for certain they would die on that raft. After a short period of time, tensions ran high as the frustration of a certain death was in the minds of each and every one of them. Arguments began to happen and the family began to fight. One of the children, who was very sick and couldn't eat or drink, finally began to get better and take down a little bit of food and water every day. That gave the family some hope and helped keep everyone together for their own survival.

Mr. Robertson, on one day dove into the water and grabbed onto a large turtle that was swimming alongside their raft. He fought with the animal for a long time and eventually was able to get it back to the raft. He was then able to cut it up into thin pieces of meat and they kept the blood in jars and they drank it, and enjoyed it. Because they were on the raft and had no way of preparing the meat, they had to eat it raw. Because they were starving, they didn't even seem to think twice about eating the uncooked meat.

From watching the movie and reading the story, I came to the conclusion that no matter what you face in your life, when unexpected things happen and you are able to adapt to those changes, you can survive. The Robertsons were able to adapt and because of that, they survived. Even though they almost didn't make it through their experience, they fought hard and were willing to do whatever in took to make it through their ordeal, out there on the