Forget what you’d take to a desert island—what would you do if you were stranded at sea? Say, on a fiberglass boat with some fishermen you hardly knew? Or clinging to a dinghy with a pair of drinking buddies? Floating in the open water with your autistic son? The short answer: anything you can think of, including the unthinkable. Here are six stories about people lost at sea who did everything they could to be found.