Man Survives In Desert For 3 Days Drinking Urine, Other Extreme Incidents

An adventure trip turned into a three-day nightmare for Mick Ohman when he got lost in Arizona's desert mountains and had to drink his own urine to survive.

Ohman got lost July 27 on his way back home to Phoenix after a road trip to Crown King in the Bradshaw Mountains, reports said.

Avoiding the highways for a scenic route, Ohman got stranded on a bumpy road in the desert when his car broke down. He had no cell phone signal and his small supply of provisions soon ran out, forcing him to drink his own urine to survive.

"It was a series of small, little mistakes that added up to the perfect storm that ended up getting me in my situation," Fox News reported quoting Ohman. However, he captured the agonising moments of his journey on his cell phone.

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Sharing his ordeal with ABC News, Ohman said he recorded a video message for his sisters in case he died or disappeared or something happened to him. "If you find this phone and I didn't do so well, please tell my sisters how much I love them," he recorded himself saying.

He also told the news outlet he walked for hours in the sweltering desert to find a cell signal but was unlucky.

Ohman ensured he left handwritten notes with his cell phone number, home address and the direction toward which he had gone on his SUV, in case someone came across the vehicle while he was gone, ABC reported.

When the food and water he had was over, he survived by drinking the water from nearby creeks and even his own urine.

On the third day, Ohman said he spotted a dirt biker and called out to him; the biker dropped Ohman to Lake Pleasant where he met with authorities and got a medical check up done. Soon after, the authorities dropped Ohamn his home.

There have been several "Cast Away" incidents where people who got stranded in remote places for days without food and water. Here are a few of them:

In March, a 24-year-old woman, Amber VanHecke of Texas, got lost for five days in a remote part of the Grand Canyon, where she had gone sightseeing. While driving and following her GPS, VanHecke ended up in a stretch of rugged road, which was not frequently traveled, reports said.

For four days, she survived on food and water she had packed and also prepared a note that read: "Please stop. I'm out of gas, stuck here," aol.com reported.

Finally, Arizona Department of Public Safety air rescue unit found her with the help from her note.

In April 2016, a 72-year-old woman, Ann Rodgers, was lost in an Arizona forest for nine days while she was on her way to visit her grandchildren in Phoenix. Her hybrid vehicle ran out of gas and electric power.

For nine days, she survived by drinking water from a pond and eating plants; she also wrote "help" on the ground with sticks that helped rescuers reach her, a report said.

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In May 2015, a couple in their 60s got stranded for two weeks in southern California's high desert where they ate oranges and pie, and drank rainwater, which they collected in cups, to survive. However, before the rescuers could find them, the man had died.

In April 2012, a 59-year-old woman, Victoria Grover, got stranded in a high desert of Utah where she had gone hiking. She broke her leg while jumping off a ledge, and could only shuffle around in a seated position. On the fourth day, Grover was found suffering from hypothermia by a rescue team, a report said.