Gourab's Blog: What Not to do When You are Stranded out at Sea

It must be a horrible experience to be stuck in the middle of nowhere. It's even worse if you are stuck out at sea. The sea covers a lot more space than land, so once you are lost at sea, you are most likely out of luck. But if you aren't stupid enough to do these few things, you have a good chance of getting rescued and going back to home. So whatever you do, do not ever do the following things if you are lost at sea.

1. Ride a dolphin back home- You probably saw this happen in the movies a lot of times. The hero, almost dead, is surrounded by sharks without any way out. Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, dolphins come out and chase away the sharks, and take the unconscious hero back to home.

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This does not always happen in real life. If you do decide to ride a dolphin back home, remember that ther are a lot of things that can go wrong. First of all, a dolphin does not know what you are saying, and because of that, there is a pretty good chance it won't understand what you are saying. Second of all, a dolphin does not know where you came from. If you try to tell it where you came from, it can't understand you. Even if you were able to speak dolphin, would you be able to tell it that you came from Australia? No, you couldn't, because the dolphin does not know what Australia is.If you were able to navigate it to Australia, you probably wouldn't be lost in the first place, would you?

2. Have a food fight- Now this is probably the one of the worst thing you can possibly do. If you are stranded out at sea in a lousy little boat that ran out of gas with little to no food available besides raw fish and seaweed, then this is probably something you shouldn't do. It would waste your resources and make your ability to live a little smaller. Now we don't want that, do we?

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3. Go as far away as you can from incoming ships- It doesn't matter if it's a ship, boat, submarine, helicopter, space shuttle, or flying saucers. Don't go away from one unless you know that it is not friendly. If you don't go to an approaching ship, you will probably not encounter another one any time soon.