A family stranded at sea for 38 days after their ship was sunk by killer whales in the Pacific Ocean has told how they survived.

According to the LAD Bible, on January 27, 1971, the Robertson family embarked on a sea voyage around the world, selling their family farm in Staffordshire to buy a boat.

Farmers Lyn and Dougal, their 18-year-old daughter Ann, 16-year-old son Dougal and nine-year-old twin sons Neil and Sandy went on the trip.

Dougal the elder was an experienced sailor.

They set sail from Falmouth and spent the next 18 months crossing the Atlantic Ocean and stopping at various ports in the Caribbean.

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Anne embarked on a trip to the Bahamas and was joined in her place by 22-year-old student Robin Williams on the next leg of their journey to New Zealand.

However, on June 15, 1972, a few days after the boat left the Galapagos Islands, disaster struck.

While the family was on its way to the Marquesas Islands, their ship was damaged three times and sank.

The ship was attacked by killer whales and sank in just a few minutes.

The family and the student saved themselves on an inflatable raft and a fiberglass boat.

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Unfortunately, they only had enough water for 10 days, and food rations for three days.

It turned out to be a 38-day trial.

To survive, travelers ate fish, sharks and turtle blood.

Dougal said some things were easy, including flying fish and dorado jumping into their boats.

However, most of the food had to be hunted.

They tied the raft and the boat together and started catching turtles.

The man explained that he offered his family to drink turtle blood after reading about it in a novel.

They also dried turtle meat and ate it, relying on their survival instincts not to eat anything too dangerous of the creatures they caught.

"We knew turtle liver was poisonous. We never read about it, we just looked at it and knew we couldn't eat it, whereas we could eat shark liver. We made a deal with each other that first day that lest it happen, we will not eat each other and die together," said the sailor's son.

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At one point, the family killed and ate a five-foot mako shark, and some of its teeth are still on display at the National Maritime Museum in Cornwall.

On the 17th day, the inflatable raft sank, and everyone had to transfer to the boat.

The 20th was Lin's birthday, and the family celebrated with turtle meat and water.

The travelers continued to keep their little boat afloat.

By day 37, they were approaching the direct sea route between Panama and Hawaii, which meant they had a better chance of being spotted by a ship, and they also felt they had enough food to see them through the 15 days of rowing to land.

The man recalled that the most terrifying moment was when they were caught in a storm and lightning struck the water around them.

Fortunately, they were discovered and rescued the next day by the Japanese fishing trawler Toka Maru II, which responded to a distress call.

Finally, on July 28, they returned to Panama, completing their incredible adventure.

We will remind you that the oldest killer whale, which was in captivity for 50 years,

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Members of Lolita's family pack are still alive in the Salish Sea, including her 90-year-old mother.

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