The Loneliest Record on Earth
133 days alone on a raft in the Atlantic. the record has never been broken.
This story gets called fake every single time it's told. So we pulled the records.
November 1942. The war log of German submarine U-172 records sinking the British ship Benlomond, 750 miles off Brazil. Fifty-five men went into the water. The records list exactly one survivor: Poon Lim, a 24-year-old ship's steward, alone on an 8-foot wooden raft.
He bent a nail into a fish hook. Wove line from unravelled rope. Caught rain in canvas, snatched seabirds from the air, hauled a shark aboard with his bare hands. Too wild to be true? The Royal Navy debriefed him for weeks — then rewrote its survival manuals using what he did.
And the part people refuse to believe: three times rescue found him and left. A freighter sailed on. A US Navy patrol plane circled and vanished. A German U-boat surfaced, looked at him, and let the sea keep him. All three are in his official account.
Day 133: Brazilian fishermen pulled him aboard. He stepped ashore on his own two feet. The King of England pinned a medal on his chest. The record has never been broken. When they told him he held it, he said: "I hope no one will ever have to break it."
Verdict: NOT BS. Every claim checked against the record at bskiller.com.
Photos: US Navy (80-G-42356), public domain.
Every claim in the film, checked against the record.
The full receipts — every claim, every source, checked against the record — are for BSKiller members. That is the whole point of the show: the receipts.