Another Survival at Sea Story

The Daily Mail reports:

A sailor who vanished after heading out to sea more than two months ago has miraculously been found alive and well off the North Carolina coast. 

Louis Jordan, 37, was picked up by a German-flagged ship at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday - 66 days after he took off to do some fishing. He was found sitting on the capsized hull of his sailboat, Angel, which had lost its mast and was approximately 200 miles east of Cape Hatteras.  

'They saw me on the front of my boat standing up there waving my arms,' he told the Today show of the huge German ship after he left hospital. 'And they turned that huge skyscraper around.' 

A Coast Guard helicopter crew from North Carolina flew to the ship and airlifted Jordan to a hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, said Lt. Krystyn Pecora, a spokeswoman for the Coast Guard.

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He survived his ordeal by drinking rain water and eating raw fish ....

He also told the Today show that he repeatedly read his Bible from cover to cover to pass the time but that the ordeal 'seemed like a lot longer' than 66 days.

From another story at the Outer Banks Voice:

Surviving the Graveyard of the Atlantic on a de-masted sailboat adrift since January, a 37-year-old man has been rescued 200 miles east of Cape Hatteras. 

Watchstanders at the Coast Guard 5th District Command Center in Portsmouth received notification from the 1,085-foot container ship at about 1:30 p.m. that the crew had spotted a man and the vessel and taken him aboard. 

A helicopter from Air Station Elizabeth City picked up Louis Jordan from the German-flagged M/V Houston Express and flew him to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. 

The News and Observer reported that Jordan had an injured shoulder but had managed to keep himself fed during his months at sea. The N&O quoted Lt. Krystyn Pecora, spokeswoman for the Coast Guard Fifth District, as saying in a phone conversation that he had caught fish and collected rainwater. 

Pecora told NBC news that Jordan also rationed food he had onboard and was able to stay out of the elements inside the boat when he needed to.