On October 25th, two women from Hawaii, Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava, were rescued from the Navy after being lost at sea for five months. Their plan was to travel from Hawaii to Tahiti. Both women and their two dogs dealt with tropical storms and 6 hours of their boat attacked by sharks.

The women both explained that they were caught in a force 11 storm, a strong classification of a tropical storm, that lasted for two nights and three days.  According to the Beaufort’s wind scale, the sailors would have experienced 1-4 foot waves and a large amount of whitecaps. The Washington Post states that there were no indications of a tropical storm in the location they were in. The only recorded storm was in Fiji thousands of miles away from the location they were in. This information can be confirmed by NASA’s satellite images.

Researchers are also questioning thee alleged 6-hour shark attack. Kim Holland, a shark researcher from the University of Hawaii, claims that he has never heard of a shark attack lasting for such a long period of time. There was no food source on the boat that would attract the sharks toward the boat.

All of this information can lead us to believe that most of the things they have said about their time lost at sea was either fabricated or false information.