Life on a Desert Island

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[00:01.48]Lesson 12
[00:03.33]Life on a desert island
[00:13.43]What was exceptional about the two men's stay on the desert island?
[00:20.42]Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island.
[00:26.32]We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.
[00:33.63]Life there is simple and good.
[00:36.54]Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
[00:40.80]The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
[00:44.18]Life on a desert island is wretched.
[00:47.53]You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe,
[00:51.53]waiting for a boat which never comes.
[00:55.31]Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
[00:59.35]but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.
[01:03.65]Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island
[01:07.53]wished they had stayed there longer.
[01:10.22]They were taking a badly damaged boat
[01:12.78]from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired.
[01:16.81]During the journey,their boat began to sink.
[01:20.32]They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food,matches,and cans of beer
[01:25.53]and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean
[01:28.25]until they arrived at a tiny coral island.
[01:32.56]There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water,
[01:36.93]but this did not prove to be a problem.
[01:39.78]The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
[01:43.62]As they had brought a spear gun with them,they had plenty to eat.
[01:47.71]They caught lobster and fish every day,and as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.
[01:54.19]When a passing tanker rescued them five days later,
[01:57.67]both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.