While John Aldridge is stuck in the Atlantic Ocean all alone, he has to rely on his fishing communities and positivity to survive while he faces unmanageable situations. He was out on his boat, the Anna Mary, in the middle of the night trying to prepare for the lobster they would catch the next morning. His partner, Anthony Sosinski was sound asleep on the lower deck waiting for the morning to come. When all of a sudden, John Aldridge was trying to pull off four hundred pounds of coolers to open a hatch, and the handle snaps. He flies backward to the end of the wide open boat as a consequence slides right off it and he was stuck, stuck in the boundless Atlantic Ocean. The fisherman starts yelling for assistance and no one answers, it is as …show more content…
He swung his leg over the rope and straddled it” (8). John Aldridge used his resources and exploited the other native fishermen by using their lobster trap buoys to stay afloat in the vast Atlantic Ocean. This is significant because John Aldridge made a difficult choice in a life or death situation that determines what happens next for him on his journey to live. He made the right decision while having already been in the frigid ocean for a little over three hours. John aldridge made a wise choice by choosing to tie the buoys together because now if he dies his body may be found. John Aldridge not only has to rely on the fishermen’s buoys, however the search teams and his partner still have to find him in the water before his time alive runs out. He has to remain calm and believe that they are looking for him somewhere for just over eleven hours. Although, “The only problem, of course, was that everyone was searching in entirely the wrong place” (6), even though it would have been wonderful to know that they cared and were doing whatever it took to find him. It must be satisfying to have the knowledge that they do indeed treasure him and it’s not just all in your