[A]
On 29 January 1982, Steven Callahan left the Canary Islands in a small yacht. (1)__________ But a week later, during an awful storm, something (probably a whale) hit the yacht and made a huge hole in it. (2)__________ He had to act quickly!
[B]
Steven got into an inflatable life raft and just had time to get a sleeping bag, a first-aid kit, some food, maps, and a torch from the yacht before it sank. He also managed to get a copy of a book called Sea Survival. (3)__________ But he couldn’t rescue the radio from the yacht.
[C]
(4)__________ His food ran out after a few days so he had to survive by catching sea-birds, fish and flying fish. He drank rain water which he caught in the raft.
[D]
After about two months at sea, the raft was 3,000 km from the place where the yacht sank. (5)__________ But unfortunately they didn’t see him. He was beginning to think that he might not survive. He was starving, exhausted, weak and very thin.
[E]
Finally, after 76 days, some fishermen saw the sea-birds that were flying around the raft and took Steven to the island of Guadeloupe. After his terrifying experience, he was finally in the Caribbean!