Talk:Poon Lim

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There appears to be a contradiction here as I find this sentence early on in the article: "All of the rest of the crew of 46 died in this incident."

...followed by this one later: "He later found out that only 11 others of the ship's crew of 55 had been rescued."

Which one of these is correct? (128.226.70.28 (talk) 13:04, 8 October 2008 (UTC))

good question - there is an external link to trivia library on this page - there it claims also that there were 55 members, but also claims that only 5 escaped. What's the real story? http://www.trivia-library.com/b/history-of-chinese-life-raft-survivor-poon-lim-part-1.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by Superwesman (talk • contribs) 19:58, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

An account in _The People's Almanac 2_, which I would not consider an entirely reliable source but appears to have been quoted (without attribution) in this article anyway (the shark-catching paragraph is almost word-for-word) indicates that a lifeboat with five sailors aboard also escaped the sinking, and that they were the only other survivors. I don't know what their sources were.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:25, 5 December 2007 (UTC)