by Deborah Bach
Shipwrecked American sailor rescued on Vancouver Island
Mar 5 2010 in Short Tacks by Deborah Bach
The Vancouver Sun has this story of a very fortunate sailor rescued from a trip in which almost everything went wrong:
VICTORIA — A shipwrecked American sailor was plucked off the rugged shores of the west coast of Vancouver Island Wednesday ending a five-day wilderness ordeal eating nothing but lichen.
Keith Carver, 56, of Tucson, Ariz., said he doesn’t think he would have lasted much more than one more day had he not been spotted waving his arms to attract the attention of “this beautiful helicopter.”
“I just wanted to live, I just wanted to see my wife again and eat chocolate ice cream with her. I’m done with these kind of adventures,” said Carver.
“It was more of an experience than I wanted to have,” he said in a telephone interview from Port McNeil and District Hospital.
Carver said he and a friend first came up from Arizona in mid February to purchase a 40-foot cement sailboat in Anacortes, Wash., intending to sail south to Mexico. The two stopped in Port Angeles and Neah Bay for overnight stays before heading south.
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SSS, we do plan on following up on this story.
Please stay on top of this story. Other sources are reporting that he has been detained by the Canadians for illegal activity. It’s possible this guy was running drugs or worse. His hearing should be early next week.
“The two stopped in Port Angeles and Neah Bay for overnight stays before heading south”….The last time I checked, Vancouver Island, where he was rescued, is NORTH of Neah. Humboldt Current drift?