heroes or cannibals?

First, Lost at Sea -- Now the Squall
Were they smugglers? Did they eat their two comrades? What about those fingernails? Three Mexican fishermen get the media's third degree.
By Héctor Tobar, Times Staff Writer
August 26, 2006

MEXICO CITY — When three fishermen returned home Friday after a miraculous ordeal at sea, the questions from this city's boisterous press corps didn't focus on the Hemingway-like details of their nine months adrift, an accidental 5,000-mile journey from the Mexican port of San Blas.
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Were they smugglers? Who cares? Were they fishing illegally? Again, who cares. Did they eat their buddies? This requires some unpacking a) Did you eat them, yes or no? b) Were they deceased prior to your decision to eat them; i.e. did you kill them to eat them? c) Did they taste like chicken or beef?

Although distasteful, necessary canibalism is a historic reality; the Donner Party, Alive, John Franklin's failed arctic expedition & possibly the Siege of Leningrad.

If I go first and can provide sustenance have at the "CF steaks".
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For more on eating one's shipmates read, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick.



The inspiration for Moby Dick, marrow in the bone, forgotten history.

"The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents-including a long-lost account written by the ship's cabin boy-and penetrating details about whaling and the Nantucket community to reveal the chilling events surrounding this epic maritime disaster. An intense and mesmerizing read, In the Heart of the Sea is a monumental work of history forever placing the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon." -Penguin USA