Fishermen drank their own urine and ate raw fish during 12 days lost at sea Fishermen left stranded at sea for nearly two weeks were forced to drink their own urine and eat a disgusting combination of seaweed and raw sardines to survive.
Antonia said that after a week at sea, they began to feel the effects of serious dehydration and lack of proper food, saying: "They were found very thin, they lost more than 10kg, those boys are also sunburnt and dehydrated, but thank God they are alive.".
I did tell him, I warned him: 'Be careful, son, the sea is rough,' but he replied that they needed to go fishing to bring food to the table and see if they had anything left to sell.
Jhonny Palamino Geles, 30, and Alejandro Torrealba Silva, 26, were left adrift in the Caribbean Sea after their boat engine failed off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia.
They had left port on January 1, but the engine failure left them unable to return, and they were adrift for 12 days.
