In some ways, Christmas Day was really terrible for Brazilian fisherman David Soares. Then again, he lived to tell the tale and apparently gained a new appreciation for life. Per the BBC, Soares, 43, set off alone on Sunday from Atafona beach, about 200 miles north of Rio de Janeiro. The seas were rough, and at some point he fell from his boat and was unable to get back aboard due to the strong current and winds. “For me, the first 10 minutes were the most difficult because I wanted to get to the boat at all costs. But [it was] really an enormous weight of water, I couldn’t swim against it,” he told G1 Globo. As exhaustion crept in, Soares decided to remove his pants and shirt and “let the waters take me to use less strength.”
The stricken fisherman drifted and swam about four hours before he spied a signal buoy off the coast near the Port of Acu, per People. He climbed on and there he waited … for two days. Luckily, his family missed him and reached out to the fishing community and the navy. “Many times I thought I was going to die of cold until help arrived,” Soares later said, per G1 Globo.
May the :clinging to buoy for 2 days” jokes commence.
Wouldn’t be the first Brazilian found shirtless and pantless clinging to a boy!
Jokes commencing:
It was so cold he was a bitter clinger.
Maybe I can reenact that with my “bouys”….
The sea was angry that day my friends.
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He took off his pants and shirt and clung to a buoy. Isn’t that what got Kevin Spacey in trouble?
Is clinging to a bouy racist or sexist? (What color and gender was the bouy?)
If Life Buoy soap is still around, they need to sign this guy up as their new product spokesman. Life Buoy soap, the soap that your mother used to wash your mouth out with after you said a dirty word.
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