Big Pond News reports that the unknown sailor whose body washed ashore on Christmas Island in a raft several months after the HMAS Sydney was sunk, may have survived for days despite the head injury he sustained.
His body washed ashore Feb. 1862 and had a piece of what is believed to have been shrapnel embedded in his skull. Professor Johan Duflou, a forensic pathologist, said the metal would have unlikely caused major brain damage, but would have pushed against the brain.
The metal is unlikely to have been from a bullet as there are no radiating fractures that are usually caused by a gunshot wound.
Any way you look at it, surviving out on that raft for any length of time, would have been a horrible way to die.
The Story Continues. --Cooter
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