Martin Psota’s raft made of logs and Styrofoam started to fall apart (Picture: Tsai-hsien/Coast Guard Administration)

A man inspired by the hit film Life of Pi, where a teenager is stranded with a tiger in an ocean, has failed miserably in trying to recreate the boy’s heroic journey.

Czech tourist Martin Psota had intended to travel from Taiwan to Japan in a makeshift raft but failed after he got into some trouble moments after setting off.

He had decided to make the voyage after he found himself stranded when his visa ran out and he didn’t have enough cash for a flight out of the country.

After watching Ang Lee’s Oscar-winning film, in which Pi has to survive alone in a vast ocean, he had the bright idea of recreating the voyage.




But for Mr Psota, things didn’t go that well.

The doomed sailor was inspired by Oscar winning film Life of Pi (Picture: 20th Century Fox)

Other than the fact the raft made of logs and Styrofoam was falling apart, the movie fan also quickly found out he lacked the fitness to row all the way to Japan.

Luckily for him the coast guard was close by and picked him up when he got into trouble.

‘How can anyone be so crazy? This man went out to sea in a small raft, consisting only of logs, driftwood and Styrofoam tied together,’ a coast guard member said.

‘When we found him, the raft was already falling apart.’

Authorities were alerted after they had received a call from a person on a fishing boat saying ‘there is a foreigner floating at sea in a decrepit-looking raft.’