Spending 5 days with Masafumi Nagasaki: the ‘naked’ Japanese castaway

June 22, 2018 Curiosities by Alvaro Cerezo
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An elderly, 82 year old Japanese man has been living more than 29 years as a ‘castaway’, completely naked, and alone, on one of the few islands that remain deserted in Okinawa, Japan.

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Easiest way to open coconuts on our desert islands

November 25, 2017 Curiosities by Alvaro Cerezo
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Brown coconuts, unlike green coconuts, are very difficult to be opened by a knife or a machete. Therefore the best way to open a mature coconut is to make a sharp stick and use your body weight as a lever as you can see on the video above…

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Getting to know Bill Butler Salazar

November 2, 2017 Castaway Survival by Alvaro Cerezo
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In 1989, the Cuban-American Bill Butler Salazar decided to circumnavigate the world with his French wife Simonne.
Instead they ended up adrift in a two meter leaky plastic liferaft when whales battered and sank their 12 meter sailboat.

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Meeting Steven Callahan

November 2, 2017 Castaway Survival by Alvaro Cerezo
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In 2016 I had the chance to visit Steven Callahan at his home in Maine (USA) and get to know more about his SOLO castaway experience at sea. He survived for 76 days adrift on the Atlantic Ocean in a liferaft. 

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Latest experience of our castaways in Blue Lagoon

October 19, 2017 Docastaway Clients by Docastaway Team
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They are Rashmie & Roel, from The Netherlands. They spend a few days completely alone at our Comfort Mode desert island The Blue Lagoon.
Both were amazing fishermen and caught plently of fish…

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The biggest coconut in the world?

July 11, 2017 Curiosities by Alvaro Cerezo
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While visiting Restoration desert island (Australia), I came across the largest coconut that I have ever seen in my life, and believe me I’ve seen a few coconuts!  I reckon that should one of our voluntary castaways get a hold of one like it they would be speechless!…

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How is the desert island of the Australian Robinson?

June 5, 2017 Curiosities by Alvaro Cerezo
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As I have already related in another post, two years ago I spent five days on the castaway squatter’s island, the Australian David Glasheen. It is called Restoration Island and in this article I will try to keep brief my accounts about this encounter…

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Spending 5 days with squatter-castaway David Glasheen

June 2, 2017 Curiosities by Alvaro Cerezo
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It was 20 years ago this month that David Glasheen decided to abandon civilisation and become a voluntary castaway. His story is well known, as it has been previously published in various communication media some years ago.

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Video of our latest group on Siroktabe Island

May 9, 2017 Docastaway Clients by Docastaway Team
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Here above you can see the nice video which this 6 castaways made as a keepsake of his 10 days experience on the Siroktabe desert island (Indonesia), March 2017…

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Video of our latest Dutch castaway on Amparo Island

April 21, 2017 Docastaway Clients by Docastaway Team
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Here above you can see the beautiful video which Kai from the Netherlands made as a keepsake of his 8 days SOLO experience on the Amparo desert island (Indonesia), July 2016.

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