http://simplebits.com/notebook/2003/02/17/life-of-pi/ Handcrafted pixels & text from Salem, Massachusetts. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:15:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://simplebits.com/notebook/2003/02/17/life-of-pi/#comment-33 Anonymous Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:51:57 +0000 http://www.simplebits.com/wp/notebook/2003/02/17/life-of-pi/#comment-33 great, it was really great and till I found this page I believed it to be true! great, it was really great and till I found this page I believed it to be true!

]]> http://simplebits.com/notebook/2003/02/17/life-of-pi/#comment-32 Pete Thu, 26 May 2005 12:26:27 +0000 http://www.simplebits.com/wp/notebook/2003/02/17/life-of-pi/#comment-32 World record - 133 days survival at sea. Currently held by a guy named Poon Lim - he managed to spend 133 days floating around the South Atlantic in a life raft all by himself. About Poon: He was born on Hainan Island which is located off the southern coast of China. At the ripe old age of twenty five, Poon Lim found himself serving as second steward in the British Merchant Navy aboard the S. S. Ben Lomond. He was one of fifty-five crew members sailing from Cape Town, South Africa to Dutch Guiana (Surinam) in South America. This was during the height of World War II. The Atlantic was filled with those dreaded German Nazi U-boats. As fate will have it, on November 23, 1942, one of the U-boats spotted the Ben Lomond off the northern coast of Brazil and fired a torpedo at it. Poon Lim and many others jumped overboard into the water. Poon Lim had a life jacket on (and nothing else) and swam as fast as he could away from the sinking vessel. This was a good move on Poon's part, as the ship's boilers exploded and the ship sank below the surface, never to be seen again. Poon Lim found a raft and managed to suvive... read the true story .... World record – 133 days survival at sea.
Currently held by a guy named Poon Lim – he managed to spend 133 days floating around the South Atlantic in a life raft all by himself.
About Poon: He was born on Hainan Island which is located off the southern coast of China. At the ripe old age of twenty five, Poon Lim found himself serving as second steward in the British Merchant Navy aboard the S. S. Ben Lomond. He was one of fifty-five crew members sailing from Cape Town, South Africa to Dutch Guiana (Surinam) in South America.
This was during the height of World War II. The Atlantic was filled with those dreaded German Nazi U-boats. As fate will have it, on November 23, 1942, one of the U-boats spotted the Ben Lomond off the northern coast of Brazil and fired a torpedo at it.
Poon Lim and many others jumped overboard into the water. Poon Lim had a life jacket on (and nothing else) and swam as fast as he could away from the sinking vessel. This was a good move on Poon’s part, as the ship’s boilers exploded and the ship sank below the surface, never to be seen again.
Poon Lim found a raft and managed to suvive… read the true story ….

]]> http://simplebits.com/notebook/2003/02/17/life-of-pi/#comment-31 ateaque Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:54:21 +0000 http://www.simplebits.com/wp/notebook/2003/02/17/life-of-pi/#comment-31 interestingly, in Yann Martels explanation for his inspiration for Life of Pi doesn't mention the story of how two sailors cannibalised their younger compatriate...the name of the victim was.....Richard Parker http://www.hants.gov.uk/peartree/parker.html interestingly, in Yann Martels explanation for his inspiration for Life of Pi doesn’t mention the story of how two sailors cannibalised their younger compatriate…the name of the victim was…..Richard Parker
http://www.hants.gov.uk/peartree/parker.html

]]> http://simplebits.com/notebook/2003/02/17/life-of-pi/#comment-30 asmita Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:55:39 +0000 http://www.simplebits.com/wp/notebook/2003/02/17/life-of-pi/#comment-30 PLEASE TELL ME TOO...if ANYONE KNOWS ANYTHING ABT THE ABOVE MENTIONED....sorry for the screaming..but i just have to know!! PLEASE TELL ME TOO…if ANYONE KNOWS ANYTHING ABT THE ABOVE MENTIONED….sorry for the screaming..but i just have to know!!

]]> http://simplebits.com/notebook/2003/02/17/life-of-pi/#comment-29 Nevie Wed, 19 Nov 2003 01:22:38 +0000 http://www.simplebits.com/wp/notebook/2003/02/17/life-of-pi/#comment-29 I too was amazed by this incredible story, at first I thought it to be true, but after looking on google search for awhile I think the author has tricked me!! its too bad, I was really hoping there were such things as carniverous islands, it was so interesting! If you know any thing more plz contact me at nevaeh05@hotmail.com I too was amazed by this incredible story, at first I thought it to be true, but after looking on google search for awhile I think the author has tricked me!! its too bad, I was really hoping there were such things as carniverous islands, it was so interesting! If you know any thing more plz contact me at nevaeh05@hotmail.com

]]> http://simplebits.com/notebook/2003/02/17/life-of-pi/#comment-28 ateaque Mon, 01 Sep 2003 03:56:36 +0000 http://www.simplebits.com/wp/notebook/2003/02/17/life-of-pi/#comment-28 your investigation on the originality of Yann Martel's tale mayy be helped by visiting http://www.hants.gov.uk/peartree/parker.html The book reads like a diary and this is to Yann Martels credit as a writer. But it is by no means fact your investigation on the originality of Yann Martel’s tale mayy be helped by visiting
http://www.hants.gov.uk/peartree/parker.html
The book reads like a diary and this is to Yann Martels credit as a writer.
But it is by no means fact

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