27 September, 2016

Most Amazing Story Of Survival

By Pamela Richardson


Some of the stories told about survival are fictional creations that are sweetened to look real. It is possible to tell a genuine story of survival using a simple criterion. There are witnesses who can verify that the information given is true. Natural courses like floods, disasters, earthquakes, etc collaborate the narration of the survivor. Mainstream media also covers these stories extensively. Here is a highlight of some of the most amazing ones.

The Robertson family rescue from the sea. The family wanted a tour from one port to the other. However, they were attacked by whales that damaged their boat severely. They only had food to last them six days. The loss of their boat saw them remain stranded for 38 days. They were rescued by Japanese fishermen.

Jackson-4 was a boat that capsized off the coast of Nigeria in 2013. At the time of the incident, the cook, Harrison Okene was in the toilet. He was trapped in a four squire feet air bubble. He was rescued three days later by divers when he heard their knock on the surface. He understandably vowed never to return to the sea.

Endurance Expedition had 28 men on board. They set out to the Antarctica in 1914 but their ship, Endurance got stuck in ice. Using life boats they crossed to an island nearby, a journey that took 14 days. They then trekked to the nearest Georgian island 1000 miles away. They had to feed on their dog when supplies ran low.

Juliane Koepcke has two stories of survival to tell. First was as a lone survivor when LANSA Flight 508 was brought down by lightening on Christmas Eve in 1971. She landed on the flow of the Peruvian rain forest with a fractured collar bone over a buttered and bruised body. No one found her for nine days until maggots attacked her wounds and she had to keep them off using gasoline. She would be found by lumber workers nine days later.

The Apollo 13 mission survived a re-entry into earth after the craft was damaged at the launching pad. They were destined to land at the moon but they circled it for three days pondering the next move. Their ration could only last two men for one and a half days. It enabled the three to live three days on modified diet. A lunar life boat saved their lives as they landed safely, but for Hayse who was severely dehydrated.

In 2003 Ralston hit the headlines for using a pocketknife to amputate his hands after a canyon climbing accident left him stuck. The decision was made after three days hanging from a cliff. He tried all methods of amputation but settled for the pocket knife two days later. He climbed down on one hand and was rescued by a European couple about to die from excessive bleeding, six hours after self amputation.

Ada Blackjack was a native Inupiat. She was to serve as a cook on an expedition to Wrangle Islands by Allan Crawford and Vilhjamur Stephenson. The two left five members of this expedition in the island to mark and claim it in 1921. When their supplies ran low, three left her with an ailing crew member. They never returned. The ailing man eventually died. Ada was rescued two years later.




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