It sounds like an incredible story: a man is stranded on a deserted island. After nine years he is rescued - with the help of Google Earth.
But if it sounds incredible, it is.
Because the story is a hoax. This is how the story begins:
In verbatim:
“Thanks to Google, this man was rescued from a deserted island where he lived for 9 years!
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Can you imagine spending nine years alone on an island without any hope of finding a soul and surviving on what nature provides? The man in this story went through all of that and more. Thanks to Google, he survived and can now tell us his story. Sacred technology, right? But let us calmly tell you what exactly happened.”
It is further reported how this came about.
The man wanted to go to Hawaii with two friends via the Atlantic Ocean and the Panama Canal. But they were caught in a storm, the two friends fell overboard and he drifted through the ocean for 17 days until he was stranded on a deserted island. There he had to fend for himself until he was rescued 9 years later. The man's name: Adam Jones.
What sounds similar to Robinson Crusoe, Lost and The Blue Lagoon sounds even more like the story of another person: Gemma Sheridan.
She is said to have experienced the same horror story on the same path. Her two friends also fall overboard in a storm and she ends up stranded on a deserted island after 17 days. The difference: She was saved after just 7 years.
What sounds like a huge, but at least possible, coincidence turns into an obvious hoax because of something else: Both are said to have put the sign “SOS” in large letters and this was said to have been seen via Google Earth, whereupon a plane was sent to the island became.
That's one coincidence too many.
Ultimately both stories are fictional.
The website also points this out snopes.com and points to the origins. After a quick check you can say: it fits! There's really nothing more to say about it...
Maybe one more thing:
Putting the word SOS in large letters could actually be seen. However, it is rather unlikely that you will be found via Google Earth. Because satellite images only provide a rough overview of the earth. Footage that shows a larger “SOS” lettering would come from an airplane.
Although these images are updated more frequently in larger cities, these aircraft rarely pass by on a deserted island in the middle of the Atlantic. So if you want to end up stranded on a deserted island, you should try your hand at acting in Hollywood.
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