Words Worth Noting - February 26, 2023

“Sometimes our stomachs hurt because we would go up to 15 days without eating. There were times when we only had one bird to share among the three of us.… We never lost hope because there’s a God Almighty and I have a lot of faith in Him. I knew He was going to help us.”

A guy who went on a three-week fishing trip from his home in Mexico with two friends that turned into a nine-month, 8,000 kilometre ordeal that ended in the North Pacific, living on raw seagulls, raw fish and rainwater, quoted in the Ottawa Citizen August 17, 2006.