Coping Strategies of Ocean Castaways Hold Lessons for the COVID Pandemic
Scientific American Coping Strategies of Ocean Castaways Hold Lessons for the COVID Pandemic Shipwreck victims cast adrift for weeks or months exhibit a resilience that serves as a model to weather any extended crisis Print Salvadoran castaway José Salvador Alvarenga walks out of a hospital on the Marshall Islands with the help of a nurse after floating on the ocean for 438 days on a trip that was initially supposed to take him from Mexico to El Salvador. Credit: Hilary Hosia Advertisement On April 14, 2002, while routinely patrolling the Indian Ocean, a French Navy vessel spotted a dingh...
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