A view of Drum Island from Ravenel Bridge (Picture: Google Maps)

A man woke up after an especially heavy night to discover he was stranded on a desert island.

Stephen Coffee was dismayed to find he was stuck on an uninhabited piece of land in Charleston, South Carolina, after rousing from a massive drinking session.

The 35-year-old told police all he remembered was going to a bar and then swimming ‘for a long time’, the Post and Courier reported.

Stephen Coffee’s time as a hungover Robinson Crusoe was mercifully short (Picture: Colin Davey/File)

Officers were alerted to his predicament at around 8.10am following reports of a man repeatedly falling over on Drum Island.


After an elaborate rescue that involved firefighters rappelling from a bridge to reach the baffled drinker, he was eventually retrieved and returned to the mainland.

The embarrassment of requiring a full-scale rescue aside, Mr Coffee did not suffer any serious injuries.