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Expedition recreates ‘Bounty’ survival-at-sea saga

NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga — Four adventurers set sail in an open boat from Tonga in a bid to re-enact the epic 4,400-mile survival voyage of Captain William Bligh of HMS Bounty fame when he was cast adrift by mutineers in 1789. Bligh sailed a 45-foot open longboat with 18 crew from near Tonga to West Timor in 48 days, surviving partly by catching fish and seabirds and drinking rain water.

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