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A 14-year-old Japanese sailor drifted across the Pacific for 14 months and could never go home

In 1832, a 14-year-old crew member named Otokichi left Japan on a rice transport ship bound for Edo. A storm blew the vessel off course, and it drifted across the northern Pacific for 14 months without a mast or rudder. The crew survived on desalinated seawater and their rice cargo. — Read the rest The post A 14-year-old Japanese sailor drifted across the Pacific for 14 months and could never go home appeared first on Boing Boing.

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