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In 1951 , a young French doctor,Alain Bombard remarked that shipwrecked men who
found themselves afloat at sea without food or fresh water could remain alive for a long
time.They could live on the sea and its contents by eating raw fish and its juice. Planktons
could prevent scurvy by providing Vitamin C.
Dr. Bombard decided to prove that he was right . He planned to put himself to sea in
an air-filled rubber dinghy with a three -foot - square sail. This was the kind of raft on which
a man might really find himself alone on the sea after a shipwreck . The journey started from
Las paimas on a little raft named ‘L’ Heretique on October 18.
No sooner had he done so he ran into trouble. First a wave swept over the raft. The
next day , the wind rose his sail,for the first two or three days , he had no luck in catching
fish and had nothing to drinkbut seawater. He became depressed and feared failure in this
test. As he became hungrier he also became more determined to succeed.
He had with him some fishing equipment in a sealed tin. But he wanted to avoid using
it. His idea was to exist like a shipwrecked sailor. He bent the point of his knife against an
oar and then tied it to the end of the oar . He tried to catch a fish but could not . Atlast , he
caught a dorado and ate it .
After these first few days he was never without supply of fish . Flying seabird fish were
the main source of his supply. Once he caught a sea bird and thought its flesh would be a
pleasant change , but he found that is tasted almost like any other fish.
A terrifying visitor arrived one day . This visitor was a huge and unfriendly fish . It followed
the raft for twelve hours and sometimes bumped against it . If it had already attacked the
rubber raft with its vicious sword , it could have cut into pieces very quickly , and that would
have been the end of the experiment. Sharks also followed his raft.
The most frightening of all Bombard’s experiences on the long Atlantic journey was not
due to sword fish or sharks . One day , he accidently knocked his air-filled cushion overboard
and saw it floating out a hundred yards behind the raft . He swam to it but when he started
to swim back , he was horrified to see that raft was moving faster than him . He put all his
strength , ,but was unsuccessful . By then , he saw himself drowning , trying to rescue the
cushion . so only a miracle could save him , and a double miracle needed , if he had been
attacked at that time by a shark . Then it happened so that the anchor felt free , and he
pulled himself on board.
1. Answer the following questions
a) How could scury be prevented by planktons?
b) When did the journey start from Las Palmas ?
c) What did he have in a sealed tin ?
d) What were the main source of his supply ?
e) Who was the terrifying visitor ?
f) How dangerous was the terrifying visitor ?
g) How did Dr. Bombard think to be saved ?
h) What double miracles did happen that save the writers
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