ADVICE TO CASTAWAYS
USEFUL BOOKLET PUBLISHED IN BRITAIN. * A narrator in a 8.8. C. radio news reel the other day referred to a new-ly-published booklet designed to help in the saving of life at sea aftex- shipwreck. It contains many valuable hints for sailors. In the course of the broadcast a doctor interviewed a seaman who, after being shipwrecked, was in a lifeboat fox- twelve days. This guide, the doctor said, is the result of many months of investigation by a committee made up of Naval and Air Force doctors and other medical men and of scientific workers. They had gone carefully into the conditions to which men and women may be exposed while adrift in boats or rafts at sea, and so framed practical recommendations as to food and water, stimulants and how to cope with extremes of heat and cold. An assistant purser to whom the radio news reel introduced the doctor, said that several of the hints in the booklet would have been most useful to those in-his lifeboat, and among them he instanced advice on abandoning ship, the best way to keep sharks at a distance, and how to deal with ailments.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1943, Page 4
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