shipwreck survivor
Stranded at sea
A shipwreck survivor is someone who has lived through the destruction or sinking of a vessel at sea.
The phrase evokes images of castaways on deserted islands or passengers clinging to debris: The shipwreck survivors were rescued after three days adrift.
It applies to both literal maritime disasters and metaphorical uses describing anyone who has endured catastrophic failure.
- castawayShipwrecked and stranded person
- strandedLeft without means to leave
- desert islandIsolated landmass, no inhabitants
- islandWater-bounded land mass
- raftFlat water conveyance
rescue · marooned · driftwood · Robinson Crusoe · lifeboat · ocean · storm · salvation · deserted · floating · shore · debris · desperate · signal fire · message in bottle · coconut · solitude · waves
- maritime travelerssailor, captain, passenger, crew, navigator
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
- protected personsnoncombatant, civilian, refugee, asylum seeker, minor
- Women of the Seamermaids, siren, selkie, sea witch, Calypso
- missing peoplemissing child, lost child, lost hiker, lost tourist, abductee