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The Man on the Raft: The Story of Poon Lim (2018x55)

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If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to s→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Falling on Grenades: The Indestructible Jacklyn H. Lucas https://youtu.be/FAbQ_XCm3eI?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR Swift Nick Nevison and His Remarkable Dash to Secure an Alibi https://youtu.be/lGWTEIBa-kE?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR In this video: On the morning of April 5, 1943, about ten miles off the coast of Brazil, a fishing family in their small boat spotted a Chinese man on a much smaller wooden raft bobbing up and down in the Atlantic Ocean. Waving a shirt and jumping, the man was clearly in distress, so the Brazilian family turned their boat around and picked him up. Climbing aboard, he was overjoyed, hungry, and very grateful. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/12/man-raft-story-poon-lim/ Sources: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~judkins/survival.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poon_Lim http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramp_trade http://www.wrecksite.eu/ownerBuilderView.aspx?8592 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/doc/176876288.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Jul%2017,%201943&author=&pub=Chicago%20Daily%20Tribune&edition=&startpage=&desc=Poon%20Lim%20Awarded%20Medal%20for%20133%20Days%20on%20Life%20Raft http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378282.Sole_Survivor https://books.google.com/books?id=EITGOOH4JTkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Sole+Survivor:+A+Story+of+Record+Endurance+at+Sea&hl=en&sa=X&ei=scmZVPu8Hor7sASB6YLQBw&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false http://www.joe.ie/fitness-health/133-days-at-sea-in-an-eight-foot-raft-meet-poon-lim/39850 http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/2462.html Image Credit: https://www.bigstockphoto.com/