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{{quote|"Lost at sea for days now. I have no crew and no navigational instruments, no provisions except a half-eaten corn dog, and unless I find water soon, I'm surely done for."|'''from the [[
A character or characters finds themselves adrift on the ocean without a means of getting to shore and little to no food or drinkable water. Usually, this is the result of a storm at sea, and if the characters in question are lucky they'll be in a lifeboat. If not they'll be floating on a piece of driftwood with nothing except the clothes on their back.
One or more of the characters may start [[Meat
Often happens in stories about [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Variant in [[De Cape
== [[Film]] ==
* The [[Alfred Hitchcock]] movie ''[
* ''[
** The sequel features a group of boaters who all decide to go swimming one day and then a series of increasingly improbable events keep them from getting back on board.
* [[Played With]] in ''[[Road to Morocco]]'':
{{quote|'''[[Bob Hope]]''': "I can't go on! No food, no water! [[It's All My Fault]]. [[Death Is Dramatic|We're done for! It's got me. I can't stand it!]] [[Madness Mantra|No food, nothing! No food, no water! No food!]] ''[[Laughing Mad|HAHAHAHAHA!!]]''"
'''[[Bing Crosby]]''': "What's the matter with you, anyway? [[Not So Dire|There's New York]]. We'll be picked up in a few minutes."}}
== [[Literature]] ==
* The poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": a group of sailors wind up lost at sea when the ship is driven off course after the narrator [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|shoots an albatross]]. One by one the crew all perish, but the mariner survives.
* The short story "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane is about a group of sailors who are lost at sea. It was based on Crane's own experience of surviving a shipwreck.
* Happens in ''[[Lord
* Actually happens, of all people, to Captain Aubrey of the [[Aubrey-Maturin]] saga. He has to rescue Dr. Maturin when the latter falls out of the Surprise's great cabin, but since the two are unable to grab onto the ship's boats, they are left to float and swim for a considerable period of time till they are picked up by a pahi boat piloted by some rather hostile lady islanders.
== [[Live
* One ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' episode had several sailors adrift in a boat and contemplating cannibalism to survive.
* [[Tintin]]: Tintin, Haddock and Szut are also lost at sea on a hastily made lifeboat in ''Coke en stock''. When Tintin and Szut decide to drink sea water to stop suffering from thirst, Haddock mocks them... and promptly slips on the planks, falling head first in the sea and drinking more than both of them.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* At the beginning of ''[[
* Happens in ''[[Illusion of Gaia]]''.
* Alluded to in [[Links Awakening]]: Link gets caught in a storm and {{spoiler|apparently}} washes up on a small island. By the end of the game he's {{spoiler|defeated the Nightmares and caused a [[Dream Apocalypse]], but he's still stranded in the middle of nowhere with nobody but a psychedelic whale and a couple of seagulls to keep him company}}.
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* [[Classic Disney Short]] "No Sail": [[Donald Duck]] and Goofy are on a coin-operated boat and don't have enough change to get back to shore.
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "Wakiki Wabbit" opens with two castaways on a raft, each considering eating the other.
** Another cartoon, "8 Ball Bunny", has Bugs and a penguin briefly stranded at sea, and Bugs starts seeing his companion [[Meat
* [[Garfield and Friends|Garfield]] imagines this, with the box as the makeshift seagoing vessel of choice. He imagines Odie as a [[Blondie (comic strip)|Dagwood]] sandwich (not called out as such, but still).
** Garfield also imagines that he and Odie are pirates lost at sea in the Halloween special, while floating across a misty lake in a rowboat.
* Fievel from ''[[An American Tail]]'' gets washed overboard at sea, but miraculously survives by floating to New York in a glass bottle.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* This is very much [[Truth in Television]]. One of the most well-known examples of the 20th century occurred after the [
** Dramatized in the [[Made for TV Movie]] ''Mission of the Shark''.
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