"That morning I had chosen between life and death. I had decided on death, and yet I was still alive, with a piece of an oar in my hand, ready to continue fighting for life. To keep fighting for the only thing that I no longer cared about." (The protagonist's despair) - The account of the episode, which actually took place, was provided by the protagonist to the writer when he was still a young journalist. - It tells the misadventures of Luis Alejandro Velasco, a sailor of the Colombian navy, who fell overboard from his ship. The ship had set sail on February 22, 1955, from the port of Mobile, Alabama, bound for Cartagena, Colombia. On February 28, he and seven other crew members were thrown into the sea by a wave, which dealt the final blow to a ship whose stability was compromised by the presence of a cargo of refrigerators, washing machines, radios, and televisions. (wiki)
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