T&T: Drinking sea water

[LRZeitlin@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/4/06 12:00:57 AM,
trawlers-and-trawlering-request@lists.samurai.com writes:


> In "The Troller Yacht Book", Buehler refers to a German doctor who 
> paddled a kayak from Africa to America in the 50s (p. 22 in the 1999 
> version). Buehler claims that the doctor proved that if you start 
> drinking sea-water before you get dehydrated you will not destroy 
> your kidneys.
>

Buehler has apparently confounded two stories. The doctor who advised
drinking small quantities of sea water was Alain Bombard, a French physician
who
crossed the ocean on a rubber raft. The German (whose name slips my memory for
the
moment) paddled across the ocean in   Folboat folding kayak. Folboat featured
this adventure in their advertising for many years.

Larry Z