How One Man Who Survived 20 Hours Adrift in the Sea

(via Popular Mechanics) Bill Durden had just caught two good-sized groupers and tossed his line back into the water when he felt it snag on the bottom of his boat. The engine, he realized, wasn’t in neutral. Durden gave the rod a good tug. It yanked him right back, pulling him straight out of his flip flops, off the back of the boat, and into the Gulf of Mexico—25 miles from shore.  Read how he survived to tell the tale here.