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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.
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== [[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 Byrons Don Juan]]'', eventually leading to [[No Party Like a Donner Party]]. The eponymous hero is the only survivor.
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== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* One ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' episode had several sailors adrift in a boat and contemplating cannibalism to survive.
* [[Tintin (Comic Book)]]: 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.
* Evoked by Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant in [[The Ricky Gervais Show]], when they asked Karl Pilkington who he'd rather save from a sinking ship. Most of Steve's argumentation was based on the fact that if Karl took Ricky on his lifeboat, he'd eat all the food in five minutes and let Karl starve.
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