Italian Adventurer Rescued After 10 Months At Sea
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Talk about an incredible journey!
An Italian "adventurer" (or basket case - you decide!) named Alex Bellini was just rescued after 10 months at sea alone in a row boat.
Bellini planned on crossing the Pacific in his row boat, starting off in Peru and rowing to Australia. After traveling more than 9,500 nautical miles, Bellini was caught in strong winds within 65 nautical miles of his goal, zapping his energy and forcing him to phone his wife for help.
Australian authorities came to his rescue, towing the boat to shore.
Bellini - who has also rowed solo across the Mediterranean and Atlantic seas - survived on dried foods and desalinated ocean water, occasionally utlizing a small cooker for a fried fish or pasta treat. He kept in communication with his family by satellite phone.
He said the toughest part of his journey was the sprawling solitude and absence of his wife. Which is why he enthusiastically greeted her when the couple was reunited despite how thin and exhausted he'd become.
He said that his intentions were not to set records, but to simply do it, and that "the other reason of my trip was making a trip inward. So it was discovering something of myself."
Besides missing his wife, Bellini said he also found himself craving sweets, especially tiramisu and apple cake.
"I want all the sweets here in Sydney," he joked.
At the moment, Bellini has no plans for a future row boat trip.
Good! That shiz is DANGEROUS!
[Image via AP Images.]
OH MY EFFIN' GOD…I SWEAR I USED TO WORK WITH THAT GUY AT FEDEX!!!
HOLY GUCOMOLIE!
AGAIN OLD NEWS
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God Perez is behind on ever news story. Glad there are better and more reliable gossip sites out there
jackass…..and I mean you MARIO
u'res so late perez!!! i read this 2 days ago on yahoo
Oh my!
What a fruitcake
it's been a long time between shaves hey.
He's got his share of the crazy-eyes.
No fucking way!
Wow, that is one crazy story….
a row boat? satellite phone….small cooker. are you sure he wasn't on a catamaran?
Re: sweetpiece – sweet, is that you?
This just popped up on my News RSS -
A PAIR of gay penguins thrown out of their zoo colony for repeatedly stealing eggs have been given some of their own to look after following a protest by animal rights groups.
Last month the birds were segregated after they were caught placing stones at the feet of parents before waddling away with their eggs.
But angry visitors to Polar Land in Harbin, northern China, complained it wasn't fair to stop the couple from becoming surrogate fathers and urged zoo bosses to give them a chance.
In response, zookeepers gave the pair two eggs laid by an inexperienced first-time mother.
"We decided to give them two eggs from another couple whose hatching ability had been poor and they've turned out to be the best parents in the whole zoo,' said one of the keepers.
"It's very encouraging and if this works out well we will try to arrange for them to become real parents themselves with artificial insemination."
Wildlife experts at the park explain that despite being gay the three-year-old male birds are still driven by an urge to be fathers.
"One of the responsibilities of being a male adult is looking after the eggs. Despite the fact that they can't have eggs naturally, it does not take away their biological drive to be a parent,' said one.
God - now even the animals are going gay!!!
How is this "celebrity juice, not from concentrate?"
That's one scary looking dude!
Crazy. That is pretty cool though. Lots of time alone to think. I would be scared to death out in the middle of the ocean at night in the dark. Scares me just thinking about it!
WILSON!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Mistress – THANKS darling mistress!!!! how is the summer treating you? and your weekend away at byron bay? do tell!
Re: Milky Milky-Ambassador to Canada – I agree, number 12. Doesn't sound like any dangerous risks to me.
What a fucking idiot…if you need a spiritual awakening go to church or something.
My first thought seeing the picture first was…this must be an article on Vincent Galllo.
Those are some serious Blue Eyes!
Brave Guy!
I'd totallyyy do his wifeee
he's either really brave or really crazy. I'm torn.
Typical W-p,
just wants to fuck and eat.
what a selfish SOB - leaving his wife to row to Australia. Are you effing kidding me???!!!!! hope she divorces his scrawny ass.
This story is old from yahoo this past weekend.
Re: doreelee – lol
She looks pretty embarrassed.
He looks like an older version of that Donnie guy on making the band
Do a split screen of him and Tom Hanks from Castaway.
He was 65 miles from his goal but he had enough food to last 10 more months? Weird.
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FINALLY SOMEBODY WITH WORSE B.O. THAN JULIA "UGLY WOMAN" ROBERTS!!!
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His wife does'nt look too happy to see him….
I thought this was Vincent Gallo and that one chick from the Real World. Why do you have to dissapoint me Perez?
I thought he was dustin diamond lol
Okay, I'm still trying to figure out the logistics of this… how is *any* of that possible with just a little rowboat? The wind alone would probably tip him over that far out. And storage? Sleeping? Um….
I want to see pictures of this boat.
IDK what I think of this story.
omggggg thats crazzzzay!!! that must a been so scary! ah! i can't imagine!! but props to him!! that's awsome to be able to say you did it! congrats dude!
its also very cool that he got to get his picture taken with lily allen.
I think it's incredible he went as far as he did! He was only like 30 (more or less) miles from his goal when he was too exhausted to go on. He deserves all the sweets he wants. What he did was an amazing human feat, and he should be applauded for it.
i know this has nothing to do with the story but… his eyes are gorgeous!
Why do white people do stupid shit and act surprised when bad things happen? Like why does a shark biting someone in the OCEAN make headlines? If one bites your ass at the drive through then that's a headline.