A small fishing boat

Two men, Cristo Rey Herrera and Jose Quevedo, both in their sixties, were reported missing by relatives on March 15th after not returning from a recreational fishing trip. They were found 20 days later adrift and without power, and they ran out of fresh drinking water over a week earlier. According to authorities, the two men could not immediately explain how they survived. What? Wildly unsubstantiated speculation ahead:

The ship was spotted Friday about 160 miles south of the island of Tenerife in the Atlantic Ocean south of Spain’s Canary Islands. A helicopter scrambled to pick up the men and flew them to a hospital, even though they were in good condition despite being adrift. They were hard to find because they had no radio and no paperwork for the trip, and are lucky to have survived. But how did they survive?

Our wildly speculative theories, with probabilities:

• There were really three men on the ship, and now there are two. That’s a tough game of rock-paper-scissors to lose… for everybody invovled. (6%)
• They weren’t actually adrift, but landed at a island and “chilled” for a few weeks to scare their families. (4%)
• They are oceanic pirates, looting other vessels for provisions. (2%)
• Assistance from the unknown (aliens, spectral beings, Alf) (2%)
• Something really, really crazy (1%)

The most likely? As fishermen, they were able to catch enough fish to survive, and rain water helped suffice in lieu of stored drinking water (85% chance). But other explanations are more fun, plus, if the likely answer were the correct one why couldn’t the men “immediately explain how they survived.” Hmmmm?

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