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- After his plane went down in the Pacific Ocean on May 27, 1943, the real Louis Zamperini spent 47 days stranded at sea on the life raft. Like in the movie, tail gunner Francis McNamara survived 33 days on the raft, eventually succumbing to dehydration and starvation.
2 days ago · Jess Battison. A man who survived six long weeks lost at sea revealed the chilling pact his family and him made for in case they didn’t make it. Yeah, I know, sounds like the plot of some drama ...
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Dec 24, 2014 · Against nearly impossible odds, Zamperini managed to survive years of extreme deprivation and torture, first spending 47 days lost at sea after his plane crashed several hundred miles from Oahu...
Rose-Noëlle was a trimaran that capsized at 6 AM on June 4, 1989, in the southern Pacific Ocean off the coast of New Zealand. [1][2] Four men (John Glennie, James Nalepka, Rick Hellriegel and Phil Hoffman) survived adrift on the wreckage of the ship for 119 days. [3]
- Cast Away. Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy. 297 votes. In this enthralling survival drama, director Robert Zemeckis captures the desperate struggle of Chuck Noland (played by Tom Hanks), a FedEx employee who gets stranded on a remote island after a plane crash.
- Adrift. Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin, Jeffrey Thomas. 140 votes. Based on a harrowing true story, Adrift follows the lives of young couple Tami Oldham (Shailene Woodley) and Richard Sharp (Sam Claflin) as they embark on a sailing adventure across the Pacific Ocean.
- Titanic. Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane. 240 votes. James Cameron's epic disaster romance Titanic revisits the infamous sinking of the RMS Titanic, blending historical events with the fictional love story of upper-class Rose (Kate Winslet) and working-class Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio).
- The Perfect Storm. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly. 191 votes. Director Wolfgang Petersen brings Sebastian Junger's bestselling novel to life in The Perfect Storm, a thrilling drama about the ill-fated fishing vessel Andrea Gail and its crew during the “storm of the century.”
Dec 22, 2014 · After his plane went down in the Pacific Ocean on May 27, 1943, the real Louis Zamperini spent 47 days stranded at sea on the life raft. Like in the movie, tail gunner Francis McNamara survived 33 days on the raft, eventually succumbing to dehydration and starvation.
When the four survivors of the wrecked trimaran Rose-Noelle washed up on Great Barrier after being lost at sea for 119 days, the media lapped up the story of the crew's miracle survival, but NZ...
