The guy lived on a desert island for 9 years, until someone noticed a SOS signal on Google

Do you think that shipwrecks, after which you are thrown onto a desert island, are left in the past and in our century are possible only in adventure novels and films? It turns out not at all. We present you Adam Jones, who lived on a desert island for 9 years.

In 2006, Adam and his friends went on a sea voyage from Liverpool to Hawaii, but as soon as their yacht reached the Pacific Ocean, a severe storm began and their ship wrecked. After spending 17 days in the ocean, Adam finally reached the shore of a desert island. As he himself admits, the most difficult were the first 2 weeks, when he was severely short of water. After he was able to build a device for collecting rainwater, which saved him from death.

Initially, the guy lived on his storm-beaten yacht, but then proceeded to build a new home. For 11 weeks, he sawed the tree every day with a sharp shell, until it succumbed and fell. However, the food was even more difficult. Fortunately, wild goats lived on the island, but without weapons they couldn’t hunt agile animals. Later, Adam was lucky - one of the goats was stuck in the bushes.

Without the necessary experience, it was very difficult for him to kill an innocent animal. When he nevertheless managed to gather his courage and do it, he received about 50 kilograms of meat.

According to Adam, every day he tried to keep fit. He ran along the shore, did push-ups, crouched with stones and pulled himself up, clutching at a tree branch. However, his state of mind left much to be desired. Depression attacked the modern Robinson every now and then, and the thought that he would never get out of this island visited his head more and more often.

Then he decides to clear the coast, collect stones and lay out a large SOS inscription from them. The hope was born in the soul of the islander that some plane flying by would notice her and save him.

In the end, his plan worked. Once Adam heard the roar of the engine and, whirling out to the shore, saw a plane approaching, which dropped a parcel of water, a first-aid kit and a walkie-talkie. So, for the first time in a painfully long 9 years, he heard a human voice.

It turned out that his inscription SOS was accidentally discovered by a schoolboy from Minnesota who was looking at Google Earth maps. It was he who reported the distress signal to the authorities.