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Could you imagine being spotted by several different military vessels while stranded at sea and just being completely ignored? That's fricken insane man. Props to the raft guy. That would have surely destroyed my spirit.
@@tychoazrephet3794 honestly both left and right are weak at least when it comes to the leaders of these groups most people in this situation would probably die whether they be left or right winged in political ideals
I read the original book on his survival. The really big thing that you missed is that he had no hammer to remove the nail from the hardwood deck, he only had his teeth. Days of agony chewing down and pulling the nail. I have read about every book on survival at sea and Poon LIm's is epic in its scope of challenge and fortitude. Regards.
I knew some hitch-hikers back in the '70's who caught and cooked a seagull. Even as hungry as they were, they couldn't eat it. They found out why, around here, they are called shit-hawks.
ruclips.net/video/7LUv4sEyfcw/видео.html seagulls is not that exiting. but sharks.. although his people where used to getting and eating sharks. doesn't make him any less badass.
Well, I doubt he was actually bare hand against the shark, but it's still impressive. Most people, myself included, won't even think of doing it let alone actually succeeding. While I know the risk of shark is actually overstated, a large sharp tooth fish floundering around on a tiny raft is not exactly a safe course of action.
I remember reading about this in a 1940s National Geographic magazine. They even had pictures. I was struck by how fit and healthy he looked when he was rescued. The guy not only survived he was doing really well.
@@bushidofreakz Yeah, I get that. Most sharks are still far too large to fight to death with a nail and haul onto a raft though. Two commons species in that area are bull sharks and tiger sharks. The avg bull shark is 8 ft long and 290lbs. The avg tiger shark is at least 10 ft long and 850 lbs. You're nuts if you think this starving little Chinese dude hauled one of those onto his dinky raft with a nail.
@@allanshpeley4284 It was a Blacktip shark, so anything between 1-6ft. To be honest you don't even know what area you are referring to when you say "commons species in that area" .He drifted half way around the pacific ocean, and there are at least 2dozen types we are talking about.
What an amazing story! Just when I thought I was having a bad week.. just goes to show even during the worst times there’s always someone less fortunate than you.
For me, the most amazing feat of perseverance and pushing past incredible physical pain, was the days it took him to chew on the hardwood plank of the raft and pull that nail with his TEETH, as he had no hammer, as is shown in the video! Regards, Death Valley
Connor Ike I congratulate you, sir. You could've gone for a poon joke like we ignorant Westerners, but you took the high road and went with a limb pun. Bravo.
Thanks, and I saw that right after I posted it. Honestly, I thought it looked neat, so I left it. I don't want to talk about my web text formatting behavior. I am here to express admiration for all the heroes that Simon and co. find to talk about, on any of their channels.
His raft was a wooden frame mounted on four oil drums. It was designed to float free of a sinking ship. There's a photo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Poom_i_jego_tratwa.jpg I remember reading that his raft is on display at the US Naval College in Annapolis Maryland. Survival techniques that he developed have been adopted by the US, probably the Royal, and other navies. He was adrift in the narrowest part of the North and South Atlantic, but there's a gyre current that just kept moving him around in circles, instead of towards any shoreline. Very cool guy. Good overview. A book about him is one of the best survival at sea stories. Think MacGyver adrift, with lots of bibs and bobs to play with.
Ya, i would die on that raft. My diary would get to day 40: "I think I'm going to wrestle a shark tomorrow!" The shark's diary - Day 41: "Forty One days! I knew if I waited long enough that idiot would try something! It was rather stringy though. Oh well. Revenge at last for grand pappy!"
You forgot to mention how he killed the shark: he beat it to death with a water jug. Also, he didn't have a knife to begin with, but made one out of a biscuit tin that was on the raft.
Reminds me of Louie Zamperini and his incredible war story titled “Unbroken”. The book was written by Laura Hillenbrand. Great read with a wonderful prospect on human grit and survival.
Long term survival in the high seas can only be accomplished by one who is very crafty, very determined, very brave and very lucky! I'd rather be trapped in a survival situation pretty much anywhere but the high seas.
I recall finding about Poon Lim from Ripley's Believe It Or Not when I was reading Jacques Cousteau's "The Silent World." Details were thin, but his record for single survival still stands.;)
I thought that Mexican fisherman who had been lost out at sea for a year or so before had the record, being he finally was spotted floating close enough to a stretch of deserted isles far off out in the Pacific. Even though he originally had been stranded with a younger fishermen. His compadre succumbed to their hellish predicament fairly early into what was to be his overwhelmingly long nightmare. I think he sadly had to face surviving all alone drifting in that great wide isolated ocean sometime around the 3rd or 4th month in of his living hell!
The name of his shipwrecked ship was the Ben Lomond, and not the Benlomond. The ship belonged to the Ben Line and all their ships were named after Scottish locations: in this case Loch Lomond and hence Ben Lomond.
What about José Salvador Alvarenga? He spent 13 months at sea, 9 of which were alone, on a small boat. I don't see much difference between small raft and small boat when lost at sea with no supplies.
Hi Daven and Simon! Great podcast yesterday! Question: "can we have a 2 hour podcast, released 7 days a week?" - yes that's a bit of a cheeky question :P still I wanna see what you guys say
That German U-Boat was probably like, “Hey, isn’t that the same guy from that ship we sunk?” lol. Also I remember hearing this story when I read the Life of Pi
YEARS AGO, I READ ABOUT THIS IN The Encyclopedia of Amazing True Facts by Doug Stover. IN THIS BOOK, IT MENTIONED ALSO THAT LIM KNEW THE LIVER OF ANY ANIMAL COULD GIVE HIM NOURISHMENT, SO HE ATE THE LIVERS OF THE SEAGULLS HE CAUGHT. IT ALSO MENTIONED THAT HE KNEW THAT SALT WATER COULD BE CONSUMED SAFELY IN SMALL AMOUNTS.
I read that book as a kid back in the 80's and it blew my mind. An incredibly exciting adventure/survival story for a young kid. I highly recommend "Sole Survivor" by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Damn! Kudos, Poon Lim! Without any doubt whatsoever, I'm 110% certain that in any catastrophic situation, even approaching a tenth of what this guy faced, I'd absolutely starve & die!
If you find this interesting, I highly recommend reading, “438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea,” by Jonathan Franklin and, “Adrift: 76 Days Lost At Sea,” by Steven Callahan. I prefer “438 days,” if you are debating on buying just one or the other. Cheers!
That guy ate steel for breakfast, and crapped nails for lunch, killed a shark with his bare hands, and had shark fin stew for dinner... impressive! Im talking about Simon of course, Poon Lim was pretty impressive also... lol, great video.
Rifhani ZXC I've seen that, that's just a fantasy film, this story would make a brilliant movie. Can't seem to see anything about it in the movies. I did a search.
I love the story, but I don't think it would make a very good movie. There just wasn't that much happening, and I'm sure he would tell you that every day was pretty much the same.
Yeah, it was weird. That was an honest question, I actually checked from Google translator as I'm not a native english speaker. I scrolled down later and found out what he meant. I've never seen a typo like that.
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1:24 I thought you guys where professionals? Shouldn't it be though and not thow?
Looks like “Sinon Weissler” spelled “though” wrong.... and a month later, he still can’t be axed to Edite the vidio. So much for Beeng professeomalls.
Quick question, who are you and what am i watching? Havent heared that line enough and im unable to read channel names or video titles :)
Story of a man lost at sea for 438 days. www.adventuresportsnetwork.com/random/castaway-that-survived-a-record-438-days-at-sea-sued-for-eating-crewmate/
Could you imagine being spotted by several different military vessels while stranded at sea and just being completely ignored? That's fricken insane man. Props to the raft guy. That would have surely destroyed my spirit.
Normal man stranded in a raft at sea: "Oh shit, sharks! I'm so dead!"
Poon Lim: "Righteous. Dinner."
Tycho Azrephet if you want to survive, you sort it out. And remember:If it doesn't taste good, you're not hungry enough.
Tycho Azrephet obvious troll is obvious
@@tychoazrephet3794 honestly both left and right are weak at least when it comes to the leaders of these groups most people in this situation would probably die whether they be left or right winged in political ideals
There is a saying that (we) chinese "eat everything that has their backs to the sky"
Besides, everything on the shark can be eaten, not just the shark's fin, nothing needs to go to waste, and frankly, tastes quite good
I read the original book on his survival. The really big thing that you missed is that he had no hammer to remove the nail from the hardwood deck, he only had his teeth. Days of agony chewing down and pulling the nail. I have read about every book on survival at sea and Poon LIm's is epic in its scope of challenge and fortitude.
Regards.
What a bad ass! First bare hand killing a seagull and then a later doing in a shark. Thanks for telling his story.
I knew some hitch-hikers back in the '70's who caught and cooked a seagull. Even as hungry as they were, they couldn't eat it. They found out why, around here, they are called shit-hawks.
Lol...I guess that shark had an even worse day at sea than he did😂
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seagulls is not that exiting. but sharks..
although his people where used to getting and eating sharks.
doesn't make him any less badass.
Well, I doubt he was actually bare hand against the shark, but it's still impressive. Most people, myself included, won't even think of doing it let alone actually succeeding.
While I know the risk of shark is actually overstated, a large sharp tooth fish floundering around on a tiny raft is not exactly a safe course of action.
With the amount of death on his hands in the ocean, does that make him a sea-rial killer? (ouch)
I remember reading about this in a 1940s National Geographic magazine. They even had pictures. I was struck by how fit and healthy he looked when he was rescued. The guy not only survived he was doing really well.
Takes a nail and drags a shark on to the raft... Anyone want to claim this guy isn't a bad ass?
Not to mention fighting it to the death
That one smells a little fishy to me. If it did happen it must have been a pretty tiny shark.
@@allanshpeley4284 well don't you imagine it was great white shark. Most shark 99% aren't as dangerous and big as a great white
@@bushidofreakz Yeah, I get that. Most sharks are still far too large to fight to death with a nail and haul onto a raft though. Two commons species in that area are bull sharks and tiger sharks. The avg bull shark is 8 ft long and 290lbs. The avg tiger shark is at least 10 ft long and 850 lbs. You're nuts if you think this starving little Chinese dude hauled one of those onto his dinky raft with a nail.
@@allanshpeley4284 It was a Blacktip shark, so anything between 1-6ft. To be honest you don't even know what area you are referring to when you say "commons species in that area" .He drifted half way around the pacific ocean, and there are at least 2dozen types we are talking about.
Frekin badass. Where there’s a will..
there is poon
Space Leopard lol im gonna start using that one
there are family members fighting over it.
Watch Poon Lim in historic film: watch?v=5yDE612DJeo
Space Leopard 😂😂😂😂😂 boiiiii
What an amazing story! Just when I thought I was having a bad week.. just goes to show even during the worst times there’s always someone less fortunate than you.
You have the best voice for these videos
For me, the most amazing feat of perseverance and pushing past incredible physical pain, was the days it took him to chew on the hardwood plank of the raft and pull that nail with his
TEETH, as he had no hammer, as is shown in the video!
Regards,
Death Valley
Why did you make virtually the same comment twice
I didn’t realize “thow” is new spelling for though
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed
Ryan Valentine I was just going to write that lol. I was really confused, and actually looked it up, thinking it was maybe a ship-related term lol.
Not to mention the 'ocsionaly'
ZoeKitten84 get over it its not a big deal
I was gonna make a comment about it thow you beat me to it.
Pretty lucky sharks didn't tear him Lim from Lim!
Connor Ike I congratulate you, sir. You could've gone for a poon joke like we ignorant Westerners, but you took the high road and went with a limb pun. Bravo.
The sharks are lucky Lim didn't come back as harpoon Lim.
(I tried)
He was pretty Lim-ited, but he Nailed the makeshift har-Poon and Fin-ished the job.
Connor Ike hahaha
He didn't even have a harPOON
The weirdest thing I learned from this is the amount of people who watch with captions on.
Poon Lim is *amazing*.
kakarroto007 the bold effect doesnt work if there is a period after the * symbol
Thanks, and I saw that right after I posted it. Honestly, I thought it looked neat, so I left it. I don't want to talk about my web text formatting behavior. I am here to express admiration for all the heroes that Simon and co. find to talk about, on any of their channels.
kakarroto007 Alright, it's your choice.
What a fantastic guy. I am glad that he was recognised for his achievements.
This needs a movie!
Life of poon pi
@@hay7501 no CGI tiger
And then he said "I hope no one will ever have to break my record". Wow! What an mazing person! 😮😊
Simon's dress shirts get tighter every video
ikr, hot right?
no homo
I bet after telling his story at the local pub Poon was guaranteed to score some sweet Poon 🙋
tawon1984 poon l9oool
he did get picked up in Brazil...Helloooo Nurse! lol
Thank you for the Animaniacs reference!
RyanORourkelol to the brim 💪
I just hope his poon lim is still in working order
Thow? Really?
Really thow.
At least he didn't call it a clip.
Right?! I thought it was the English that invented using '_____ough'
loughl
They also blew it at 4:30 with ocsionally...but it's ok. They occasionally screw up.
wedo4444 ..haha yeah I almost googled thow to see if was a maritime term I wasn't familiar with.
His raft was a wooden frame mounted on four oil drums. It was designed to float free of a sinking ship. There's a photo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Poom_i_jego_tratwa.jpg I remember reading that his raft is on display at the US Naval College in Annapolis Maryland. Survival techniques that he developed have been adopted by the US, probably the Royal, and other navies. He was adrift in the narrowest part of the North and South Atlantic, but there's a gyre current that just kept moving him around in circles, instead of towards any shoreline. Very cool guy. Good overview. A book about him is one of the best survival at sea stories. Think MacGyver adrift, with lots of bibs and bobs to play with.
Poon to Shark before catching and eating it,
"I'M NOT STRANDED HERE WITH YOU... YOU'RE HERE STRANDED WITH ME!!!"
Really good video, thanks for the entertainment
Sounds like life of pi
Elemento Tech But this is better; it's Life of Poon.
I like poon pi
Hmmm, pie.
Yep pretty cool
Yep stolen story...
Ya, i would die on that raft.
My diary would get to day 40: "I think I'm going to wrestle a shark tomorrow!"
The shark's diary - Day 41: "Forty One days! I knew if I waited long enough that idiot would try something! It was rather stringy though. Oh well. Revenge at last for grand pappy!"
How do videos like this, well worded, brilliantly presented, both editing and narrative, have dislikes?
Your story-telling skills are on point. That was as good as a movie for me and I would like twice if I could. Thank you.
I love your great video and audio quality!
Love these stories! Wow what a story, guess i will have to read this book now, thanks!
Yet another amazing badass!! Awesome story.
Just found your channel and subscribed imediatly... thx from Berlin/Ger. for the realy interisting story's !!
Hardtack sits on the border between food and construction material. There are even stories of hardtack stopping flintlock pistol bullets.
You forgot to mention how he killed the shark: he beat it to death with a water jug. Also, he didn't have a knife to begin with, but made one out of a biscuit tin that was on the raft.
Incredible story of perseverance and fortitude.
Reminds me of Louie Zamperini and his incredible war story titled “Unbroken”. The book was written by Laura Hillenbrand. Great read with a wonderful prospect on human grit and survival.
Zachary Nuss agreed, I recommended that they tell that story next! It was on the very last video to! Great timing
Zachary Nuss In my view "Devil at my heels" is a better book.
"I hope no one will ever have to break that record"
Cool. He doesnt want somebody to suffer like that
What an amazing chap!
Great job! This was super duper awesome content.
This channel is great! I also subbed to your personal. Fantastic content!
Wow !! Awesome as always !!
🇬🇧 🇺🇸
Long term survival in the high seas can only be accomplished by one who is very crafty, very determined, very brave and very lucky! I'd rather be trapped in a survival situation pretty much anywhere but the high seas.
Great video, thank you 😊
And all this by a man named Poon. Absolute legend
6:20. You should point out that rescuing a raft was risky because it was used as a decoy to stop a ship by Axis submarines
I recall finding about Poon Lim from Ripley's Believe It Or Not when I was reading Jacques Cousteau's "The Silent World." Details were thin, but his record for single survival still stands.;)
This Should be adapted into a future movie. Might even win a oscar
Another excellent video. Well researched and articulated. And now a new hero. Move over Winnie the Poo.
Poon Lim is back in town.
Seriously, I don't believe a word of it. He can't even read the teleprompter, and then to do Maggie wrong, damn all.
WILSON... WIIIIIIILLLSOOOOOOOOON!
I thought that Mexican fisherman who had been lost out at sea for a year or so before had the record, being he finally was spotted floating close enough to a stretch of deserted isles far off out in the Pacific. Even though he originally had been stranded with a younger fishermen. His compadre succumbed to their hellish predicament fairly early into what was to be his overwhelmingly long nightmare. I think he sadly had to face surviving all alone drifting in that great wide isolated ocean sometime around the 3rd or 4th month in of his living hell!
this was one of my favorite books that I read as a kid.
When he said "Hey, at least the British arent beating us" I thought he was gonna then say "And then they beat them"
I would love to see this man become a spokesperson for Tang. The adverts would read, "Have you had your Poon Tang today"?
I’d probably just curl up and die. But kudos to him. Amazing resourcefulness.
Absolutely amazing!
Dude got some serious skills and determination.
This story would make for a GREAT movie.
"I hope noone will ever have to break that record"
The name of his shipwrecked ship was the Ben Lomond, and not the Benlomond. The ship belonged to the Ben Line and all their ships were named after Scottish locations: in this case Loch Lomond and hence Ben Lomond.
What a bad ass! And I do agree with him, that nobody else should have to beat his record!
Unfortunately someone did, by a wide margin. Google "José Salvador Alvarenga"
Thats a REAL man, never give up
What about José Salvador Alvarenga? He spent 13 months at sea, 9 of which were alone, on a small boat. I don't see much difference between small raft and small boat when lost at sea with no supplies.
The guy was onna raft. Not voyaging
There's a definitive difference with sharks ramming into it
incredible. what a badass. the epitome of his species.
Great story thanks bro !
Hi Daven and Simon! Great podcast yesterday! Question: "can we have a 2 hour podcast, released 7 days a week?" - yes that's a bit of a cheeky question :P still I wanna see what you guys say
Very cool video, can't believe that guy went through so much thow...
José Salvador Alvarenga - adrift in the Pacific for 438 days, ~300 of those days he was alone.
Amazing story. Alfred Bester used Lim's story as inspiration for The Stars My Destination. Also it was Warren Magnuson not Walter.
Another good one Simon.......
Stanton Boyd:
"What kind of a name is Poon?"
Fletch:
"Comanche Indian."
This raft ride sounds alot like what they show in Cast Away 😂😂
That German U-Boat was probably like, “Hey, isn’t that the same guy from that ship we sunk?” lol. Also I remember hearing this story when I read the Life of Pi
What a hero
YEARS AGO, I READ ABOUT THIS IN The Encyclopedia of Amazing True Facts
by Doug Stover. IN THIS BOOK, IT MENTIONED ALSO THAT LIM KNEW THE LIVER OF ANY ANIMAL COULD GIVE HIM NOURISHMENT, SO HE ATE THE LIVERS OF THE SEAGULLS HE CAUGHT. IT ALSO MENTIONED THAT HE KNEW THAT SALT WATER COULD BE CONSUMED SAFELY IN SMALL AMOUNTS.
OKAY JIM. GIVE MY LOVE TO CAROL AND THE KIDS.
I read that book as a kid back in the 80's and it blew my mind. An incredibly exciting adventure/survival story for a young kid. I highly recommend "Sole Survivor" by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Damn! Kudos, Poon Lim! Without any doubt whatsoever, I'm 110% certain that in any catastrophic situation, even approaching a tenth of what this guy faced, I'd absolutely starve & die!
If you find this interesting, I highly recommend reading, “438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea,” by Jonathan Franklin and, “Adrift: 76 Days Lost At Sea,” by Steven Callahan. I prefer “438 days,” if you are debating on buying just one or the other. Cheers!
What a legend!
Clicked for the awesome name. Stayed for the awesome story.
This should be a movie
My new hero; he even takes lead on Teddy Roosevelt.
That guy ate steel for breakfast, and crapped nails for lunch, killed a shark with his bare hands, and had shark fin stew for dinner... impressive! Im talking about Simon of course, Poon Lim was pretty impressive also... lol, great video.
Scott you are a bag of nails.
@@thehamburglar9mm
Better than being a fucking taco.
@@jeaniebird999 I disagree.
This story would make an excellent movie, does anyone know if it was made into a film? I would love to watch it.
Telecastvids life of pi maybe the closest
Rifhani ZXC I've seen that, that's just a fantasy film, this story would make a brilliant movie. Can't seem to see anything about it in the movies. I did a search.
I love the story, but I don't think it would make a very good movie. There just wasn't that much happening, and I'm sure he would tell you that every day was pretty much the same.
For real!
This would make a good movie!
Oh, I read this book.
That’s got to be the best pirate I’ve ever seen.
I learned about Poon in water survival school while in the Navy
Awesome share
One has to wonder how many people have survived longer but were never rescued. Hundreds? We'll never know.
Great story poon lin
when you said belem I could not stop launching
Wow seriously hooking up sharks with a nail...Holy crap this guys a badass!
Shark: I have up to 7 rows of 50 teeth each!
Poon Lim: I have a nail and I like those odds!
Very good video Simon, I like your work, how do you make
Has anyone made a movie about this yet, and if not, how has no one made a movie about this yet?
1:25 "thow"? What is that supposed to be?
Kriste Isopahkala very poor spelling. Kinda shit from an educational channel to mispell something so simple.
Yeah, it was weird. That was an honest question, I actually checked from Google translator as I'm not a native english speaker. I scrolled down later and found out what he meant. I've never seen a typo like that.
Do the story of Poon Tang next please
Fascinating story - how did they travel from HK to Cape Town in 1938 in time for the ship's voyage?
I read about a couple who was lost at sea who also killed and ate...and drank...seagulls. You get crafty when you’re starving, thirsty, and sunburned.
Kitana Kojima just picturing your poon tang
This was a good story just wish had some pics to go with it.
i don’t he had a camera
i doubt you know how to spell
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poon_Lim#/media/File:Poom_i_jego_tratwa.jpg
There are plenty of poon pics all around the web.