i. ad you give dnr. we were. i thought i lost you. at sea for more than two months months and no sunburn. that s something. coast guard officials say they re still trying to piece together exactly what happened but they re having a hard time. the map says he survived by rationing food and packed drinking water and rain water and grabbed some fish and ate that. laura ingle is in the new york city newsroom. more than two months. yeah. we re going to get to the bottom of that hopefully. the coast guard says louis jordan is doing well, he is with his family and they re giving him time recuperate from the open sea adventure before talking more with him about how exactly he survived after being plucked by the coast guard off the german cargo ship. he was checked out at hospitalized. today he spoken with a tv station about how he prayed to god for help when his sailboat capsized. i was flying through the air somersaulting and the ceiling
jordan off the coast of north carolina. roger. 66 days ago. jordan s family first reporting him missing to the coast guard and 1: 30 p.m. yesterday a german cargo ship spotting him on top of his capsized sailboat nearly 200 miles off the coast of north carolina. now jordan collin recalling the night his cope capsized. i was flying through the air somersaulting. the floor was the ceiling and this side was the other side. a terrifying moment that he says was the start of an incredible story of survival. i was just praying to god, you know, please protect me. and today questions about how he might have survived at sea for more than two months. he was also fishing with a net and collecting rainwater. so he was just rationing the food he had and making the best of it.
into days. have you given up hope? many times. what no one knew is he drifted into the atlantic and mast and rudder broken and boat capsized three times. i was flying through the air somersaulting and everything was upsidedown and backwards. reporter: for two months he rationed his food and ate raw fish capturing rain water to survive. thursday morning an incredible stroke of luck. jordan s small sailboat was spotted by the houston express, a massive german containership 200 miles off the carol line that coast. they saw me waving my arms and turned that huge skyscraper around. reporter: a coast guard chopper lifted him from the deck of the houston express flying him back to norfolk. thanks for your help. reporter: louis is thinner and big shaggier than before his ordeal but happy to be home. are you ever going to sail again? i don t really know. reporter: will you ever let