Google earth finds woman trapped on deserted island for 7 years

[NickNitro]

GOOGLE EARTH FINDS WOMAN TRAPPED ON DESERTED ISLAND FOR 7 YEARS

n 2007, Gemma Sheridan and 2 friends set out on a voyage that was to take them from their home town of Liverpool, across the Atlantic to the Panama Canal and then onwards to the beautiful island of Hawaii.
The first stage of the voyage went without incident. However, after passing through the Panama Canal and into the Pacific, things started to take a turn for the worse.
There was a huge storm that took out the boats electronics and washed her 2 friends overboard and seriously damaged her boat. Without any electronics and with a damaged boat, Gemma drifted for 17 days until she was hit by another major storm. During the storm, Gemma was knocked unconscious and the rest is history.
Gemma awoke on a beach, surrounded by wreckage from her boat.

I woke up 1 morning to the sound of a plane flying over me which was unusually low, I could not believe it, I thought it was a dream. I ran to the beach screaming and waving my arms like a lunatic, the plane flew over 2 or 3 more times and then dropped a small package.
Inside was a radio, fresh water, food and a small medical kit. I switched on the radio and heard the first human voice for years. We talked for what seemed like an eternity, then I asked the voice on the other end "How did you find me" to which they replied "Some kid from Minnesota found your SOS sign on Google Earth"
I didnt even know what Google Earth was, but I'm eternally in their debt now.


http://news-hound.org/google-earth-finds-woman-trapped-on-deserted-island-for-7-years/

 

[Farren]

Hoax:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/201...trapped-on-deserted-island-story-is-bogus.htm

 

[charl_huntress]

WOW...I was going to say if that's true that's crazy.

 

[Ant-manic]

Gilligan wept

 

[Doctor Evo]

Hoax:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/201...trapped-on-deserted-island-story-is-bogus.htm

From our old friends at News-Hound.org, who pranked the Internet last January with a scoop about a planetary alignment supposedly counteracting earth's gravity and making everyone weightless for five minutes, comes the gripping tale of Gemma Sheridan, a British woman shipwrecked and stranded for seven years on a desert island until some random person spotted her SOS sign on Google Earth and notified authorities.

Did we ever have a thread on this? I want to see who actually believed this was plausible.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Didn't know Hawaii was only one island. This isn't even a well-written hoax.

 

[Teelie]

There are several islands in Hawaii including one named Hawaii, so I dismissed that as either referencing the main island or just laziness in the reporting. Too bad it was a hoax. It felt suspicious but there have been enough actual stories of crazy out-there things I was willing to at least believe it possible.

Good on being quick on the debunk though. The faster people know a story is false the less it will spread.

Oh and for once I'm not to blame!