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The only food they had were two cans of preserved turnips, no fresh water.
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For the first three days, they ate nothing.
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On the fourth day, they opened one of the cans of turnips and ate it.
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The next day they caught a turtle.
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Together with the other can of turnips,
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the turtle enabled them to subsist for the next few days.
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And then for eight days, they had nothing.
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No food. No water.
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Imagine yourself in a situation like that, what would you do?
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Here's what they did.
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By now the cabin boy, Parker, is lying at the bottom of the lifeboat in the corner
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because he had drunk seawater against the advice of the others