George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
When his ship exploded, George clung to the figurehead and washed ashore on an island.
He built a raft, and gathered up dead crewmates’ corpses to use for buoyancy.
The tide pulled him out to sea, he caught seagulls to eat.
For days, he floated, dehydrated and starving.
The experience drove him mad.
When George made it back to Port Royal, he went berserk and killed some people before feeling back to the ocean.
The Navy caught him, and his defense was getting the idea from some comic book.