Word: rafting
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...first night wasn't bad. Dixon would have loved a cigaret, but he lived. So did the other. When a searching plane missed their tiny raft the next day, they all realized that living was the only thing they had left...
...until his throat became too parched. Dixon, impatient, worried but cheerfully profane, decided to head for islands in the south. He drew a chart on a piece of canvas. With the salvaged line of rope and a life jacket, he rigged up a sea anchor which steadied the bobbing raft when winds were contrary...
...could only doze because the life raft, said Dixon, was like "sleeping on a Beautyrest mattress and someone smacking you with a baseball bat twice every three seconds, and someone else throwing buckets of cold water in your face...
With My Crossbow. That night an albatross landed on the raft. Aldrich killed it with the pistol and Dixon, the only one who could swim, dived overboard and retrieved it. The men ate the organs and the entrails, but put the unplucked flesh away to save. In the night it glowed with phosphorescence and Dixon threw it overboard. That was a tough thing to do. But during the night it rained again. "The drawers worked fine," Dixon said. "We all had a good drink...
...seventh day Aldrich slashed out with the pocketknife again, this time gilled a four-foot shark and yanked it aboard. It flopped down on Pastula in the bottom of the raft. He rolled over and pinned it like a wrestler. With their pliers the men ripped the shark open. Dixon remembered reading that sharks stored up vitamins in their liver. They joked about that. The liver was "very tasty," so were two sardines in the shark's stomach which the men said "must have been partly digested because they tasted as if they had been cooked...