Alaska fisherman survives 26 hours floating in fish crate

Ryan Harris, 19, told the local newspaper in Sitka, Alaska, that he sang songs like “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” to keep himself awake through the night as the fishing crate bobbed on the waves.

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Meanwhile closer to the equator.....

A Kiribati fisherman who drifted in the central Pacific for nearly four months has been found alive and asking for cigarettes, a Marshall Islands fishing vessel reported on Friday.

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How the dynamiting fishermen of Benghazi helped bring down Qaddafi

The fishermen of eastern Libya are among the most fervent advocates of dynamite fishing, where a block of explosives is thrown into the ocean to kill dozens of fish in one quick blast. The practice is abhorred for the damage it does to marine environments, but it may have saved the lives of some early rebels on the streets of Benghazi.

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