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After Steve Callahan's boat was hit during the middle of the night, he had to flee his sinking ship for his life raft

For 76 days, he survived on next-to-nothing, losing about 1/3 of his body weight

He spent his time on the water living "like an aquatic caveman”

For 76 days, Steve Callahan was stranded alone on a six-foot inflatable life raft in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with little food or water, and nobody was aware that he was even adrift.

“It was a view of heaven from a seat in hell,” he tells PEOPLE four decades after his rescue.

On Jan. 29, 1982, Callahan, an experienced sailor, set out to travel 3,000 nautical miles from the Canary Islands to Antigua on his self-designed sloop, Napoleon Solo, a 21-foot boat. About a week into the trip, which had been pict

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