People who miraculously survived. Interesting on the net! Elianna Vazquez: House Blast
Have you ever witnessed a car accident when a car literally flew a few centimeters away from a person? From such a spectacle, even ordinary observers are literally breathtaking.
Therefore, one can only guess what a person is experiencing, miraculously escaping death. Undoubtedly, everyone who sees this photo begins to relate differently to the value of their own life.
Involuntarily, you ask yourself what those 10 people thought of, whose stories are told by the following photos. Judge for yourself, these people simply lived their own lives, and suddenly found themselves face to face with death.
Would you not panic in his place?
Of course, it can be argued that the paratrooper took a certain risk when he jumped out of the plane, but who could know that another flying object would block his path to the ground?
Ideal illustration for safety regulations.
It’s scary to just look at this photo. But it could be worse! If you had met the hero of this story in life, he would have first of all given you a lecture on the need for safety precautions and the use of appropriate protection.
So ski after that!
The worst thing is that such crevices in the slope are almost impossible to notice until you find yourself in close proximity to the edge. If you look closely, you can see traces of skis, whose owner avoided falling at the very last moment.
Got Game!
No wonder they say: "During a thunderstorm, you can’t stand in the middle of a field." Who cares who won if half a team is killed by lightning ?!
Ax - the cause of an accident ?!
This photo raises many questions: why the ax was not put into the tool box? Did someone throw it, or did an ax fly out of a pile of rubbish when the truck braked? And, of course, was it worth putting on white pants on such a day?
The girl was very lucky - for an unknown reason, the shark decided to let the teenager go.
A teenage girl from Texas was kneeling in the water off the coast when something bit her back. This happened near the villa, where the girl’s family comes in the summer to sunbathe and swim.
Sleep with the fish, as they say.
As a result of the landslide, the truck flew to the side of the highway and almost fell off a cliff directly into the Pacific Ocean.
How could this even happen ?!
The woman was driving her car on the highway, and on the side of the road someone was operating a lawn mower. The rusted blade came off and flew off to the side of the road, breaking a windshield a centimeter from the driver’s head and getting stuck in the rear headrest. The woman was not physically injured, but when she recovers from the experience, it is not known.
Go camping, they said.
The couple decided to go camping, but did not even have time to cross the road. A man and a woman miraculously did not find themselves under the wheels of a pickup truck that violated the rules of a turn. Woe-travelers survived, but whether they will maintain a relationship is unknown. The man was clearly ready to leave his girlfriend to the mercy of fate.
Instead of a thousand words.
It is hoped that the driver of this jeep drove at great speed through the forest, not dismantling the road. Because, if you can "fit" into a huge tree branch on the way to the store, I definitely will no longer drive!
Despite the fragility of life, stories of the survival of people in various circumstances prove the strength and strength of our organisms. Some people are miraculously saved, even after going through terrible events. These survivors, whether a traveler lost in the desert or a soldier trying to hide from their enemies, give us good examples in times of despair. Here are 25 stories of people who survived by miracle.
25. Matthew Allen
Originally counted as deceased, Matthew Allen was discovered by travelers in an Australian bush. He was half-blind, covered in blood-sucking insects and hit by gangrene, which slowly corroded his legs. He was there without food alone for nine weeks and only strengthened his strength with water from a nearby stream.
24. Harrison Oken
After his ship, Jacson-4, capsized and sank 12 miles off the Nigerian coast, this Nigerian sailor lived for three days in an air bubble that formed in the hold of a sunken tugboat. Experts were amazed that he survived at such a depth that even experienced divers rarely survive.
23. Chris Stewart
When the teenage rider Chris Stewart flew into the barrier at speed, he was supposed to die from the blow. His head was internally separated from the body. However, after several hours of surgery, the doctors were able to return everything back. The racer not only survived ... he fully recovered.
22. Lorna Bailey
49-year-old grandmother Lorna Bailey suffered a heart attack that supposedly killed her. She was connected to a life support system, but the doctors assured her family that she was dead. However, after 45 minutes, the color of her face returned to the patient, and her eyes began to gleam. The nurses said that these were normal reflexes, but this did not convince relatives. In the end, Lorna opened her eyes and returned to life. Even after such a long time in a state of clinical death, her brain was not damaged.
21. Lindy Harding
When Lindy Harding jumped with a parachute, she was always told that the chances that her parachute would not open were negligible. But during one of her jumps, the worst thing happened, and the parachute did not open. She fell from a height of 1200 meters and hit the ground. She was supposed to crash to death, but somehow survived, breaking her two ribs and nose. Even more surprisingly, she decided to return to parachuting again.
20. "Apollo 13"
Imagine that you are outside the earth’s atmosphere, in an empty space for thousands of kilometers, locked in a tiny capsule, and you slowly run out of oxygen. This is exactly what happened with the Apollo 13 crew. At that moment, many assumed that the crew would not be able to return to Earth and that he was destined to die in space. Fortunately, NASA had a plan to return them. Using the landing module as a life raft and having managed to charge its batteries with improvised means, the crew made a flight around the moon and returned home, having survived all the trials.
19. Bobby Leach
In 1911, Bobby Leach climbed into a metal barrel and descended into it along with the waters of Niagara Falls. He was the second to survive such a bold descent. However, years later, in 1926, he slipped on an orange peel and broke his leg. The fracture caused gangrene, which ended in death.
18. Peter Skylberg
The Swede Peter Skylberg survived while under the snow for two months without food and during prolonged frosts. Scientists believe that the snow provided him with two ingredients necessary for survival: water and thermal insulation. Peter used melted snow for drinking, and the snow cover helped him keep warm.
17. Katrina Burgess
17-year-old Katrina Burgess survived a terrible car accident, breaking her neck, back and ribs. In addition, she had pierced both lungs. Doctors said that she would die without surgery, but even if the operation was successful, Katrina would not be able to walk. However, after five months, she completely recovered and made a deal with a modeling agency.
16. Liisa and Tuomo Peltola
When Liisa and Tuomo Peltola were skiing, they got lost and could not find the hut they were looking for. Tuomo fell ill and could not continue on his way. Liisa went on alone and only fifteen hours later found people. They returned to find her husband. Fortunately, they found that he was still alive. However, he had to undergo a serious operation on the intestines and toes due to frostbite.
15. Ada Blackjack
Ada Blackjack was an Inuit woman who ventured to go to the remote island of Wrangel, north of Siberia, in a company of four men to declare his Canadian identity. Ada was hired as a seamstress and cook. However, the expedition was shipwrecked, and the people were left alone. When food supplies were drawing to a close, the three men left to seek help, leaving Ada and the weakened Lorne Knight. Knight died of scurvy, and Ada was left with only a cat named Vic. She managed to survive in the cold until she was rescued. Having become a major celebrity of the time, she earned the nickname "Woman Robinson Crusoe."
14. Regina Rode
As a fifteen-year-old teenager, Regina Rode managed to escape during the massacre at Columbine School. At that moment, she was in the cafeteria and, with the sound of gunfire, rushed to run, saving her life. This story is remarkable in itself, but it began to look even crazier when, after years, Regina also survived the execution at the Virgin Polytechnic University.
13. Todd Orr
In the wild, bear attacks occur regularly, but it is very rare for a bear to attack twice. Todd Orr traveled through the wilderness of Montana when he was attacked by a grizzly bear with cubs. Ursa bit her head and hands, and then threw him and left. Todd got up and hobbled to his car, which was three miles away. However, the grizzly bear did not leave him alone. She returned for a few seconds, bit his hand and shoulder, and then stood on her hind legs above Todd. And then she left again! He survived her attack twice! He claimed that he survived thanks to luck and knowledge of how to protect his vital organs by lying face down.
12. Alkides Moreno
Most people who fall even from the tenth floor do not survive, but Alkides Moreno fell from the 47th and survived. He and his brother Edgar washed the windows of a skyscraper in New York when the worst happened. The cradle in which they were collapsed down. Unfortunately, Edgar crashed, but Alkides miraculously survived.
11. George W. Bush
Former President George W. Bush was nearly killed by Japanese soldiers in the Pacific during World War II. The plane with him and several other pilots was shot down. Nine other crew members were captured, tortured and killed, while Bush escaped with a life raft and was saved. He survived by jumping out of the plane farthest from the island.
10. Christopher Jones
When Christopher Jones decided to take his first long parachute jump, he least expected to be caught in the air. Unfortunately, this is exactly what happened. At an altitude of 2000 meters, he lost control and could not cope on his own. His instructor could get to him and hook him to his parachute, but by then Jones was unconscious and could still die. At an altitude of 600 meters, Jones regained consciousness. After listening to his instructor, he managed to land safely.
9. Albert Stevens
Believing that Albert Stevens is doomed to die from cancer, they began to inject plutonium as part of the experiment without informing him of this. On May 14, 1945, he was given a dose of plutonium with a radioactivity of 131 kBq, which is many times higher than the lethal dose. Despite this, he lived another twenty years and died of heart disease. In just twenty years, he received an effective dose of 6400 rem. The amount of absorbed radiation, which is considered acceptable for the employee, is 5 rem. After Stevens' death, it was discovered that he had no cancer at all.
8. Salvador Alvarenga
Salvador Alvarenga, a 36-year-old fisherman, left Salvador to do what he could do best. He went to sea in a small boat and soon fell into a severe storm. After 438 days, or about 14 months, he was found alive off the coast of the Marshall Islands, 10,700 kilometers from El Salvador.
7. Frane Selak
From 1962 to 1996, Frané Selac survived several deadly events and became considered “the happiest unlucky person”. He survived a train crash, a plane crash, a bus crash, three car crashes and a bus accident. Each time he survived in all the incidents that killed others. After avoiding death so many times, in 2003 Selak won the main prize in the lottery.
6. Anatoly Bugorsky
Russian physicist Anatoly Bugorsky is known for having his head stuck in an accelerator of elementary particles, and an intense proton beam passed through it. According to Bugorsky, he saw the light a thousand times brighter than the sun, but did not feel any pain. Half of his face was swollen beyond recognition, but in the end, everything was back to normal. Apart from hearing loss in his left ear, he had no other side effects. Scientists say the fact that he generally survived was a miracle.
5. Roy Sullivan
Roy Sullivan entered the Guinness Book of Records as the person who received the “Most Lightning Strikes and Survives After That.” In total, he was struck by lightning seven times, for which he was called a "lightning rod man." He died in 1983, committing suicide "because of unrequited love."
During the Great Depression, people tried by all means available to earn quick money. One of such popular ways was to find a local drunkard, who with one foot is already standing in the grave, and get an insurance policy on his behalf. Then the drunkard was killed. A group of men tried to do this with Michael Malloy, but they did not succeed in killing him. He soon became known as an indestructible man who survived six attempts at killing with poison in alcohol or food.
3. Violet Jessop
Violet Jessop began her work on cruise lines on the ship "Olympic". She was on board when a major accident happened on the ship, but she managed to survive. Later, her parents convinced her to get a job at the Titanic. She heeded their advice and became a crew member. When the Titanic collided with an iceberg, she got into lifeboat No. 16 and survived. Later she was also aboard the Britannica when she was blown up by a mine set by a German submarine. Violet survived this too. She died at the age of 84.
2. Pan Lien
November 3, 1942 the ship Pan Liang was sunk by a German submarine. He quickly plunged to the bottom, taking with him all the passengers, with the exception of Pan Liang. He managed to use the liferaft and spent 133 days at sea. All this time he was fishing and hunting for gulls, luring them to a boat. He grabbed them by the neck, drank their blood, and used salt water to dry meat and eat it. He also managed to pick up a swimming shark, which he also ate. During wanderings, he saw a cargo ship, an American plane and a German ship, but none of them came to his aid. In the end, it was picked up by Brazilian fishermen.
1. Tsutomu Yamaguchi
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was a naval engineer in Hiroshima when he saw a plane from which a small object was separated by parachute. Shortly afterwards, a bright light flashed, and it was thrown into the air with force. The explosion was the first nuclear bomb dropped on the city by the Americans. Despite severe burns, Yamaguchi survived and headed to the train station to get to his home ... in Nagasaki. When he arrived, he was admitted to the hospital due to severe burns. As you know, a few days later another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Miraculously, he, his wife and son survived the explosion, but were affected by radiation. Yamaguchi thought he might die from radiation, but gradually his health was restored. After he survived the two most terrible bombardments in the history of mankind, he lived to be 93 years old.
Today, our article will tell you incredible stories by the miracle of surviving people who smiled at luck at the right time. Stories of events that were later filmed in the world of cinema and became known to millions of people. Many do not believe and deny the possibility of salvation under deadly conditions, but each person has self-preservation instincts. They make themselves felt when the body is under stress. Scientists do not fully understand what the human body is capable of.
One beautiful May day in 2003, Aron Ralston decided to cross the Blue John Canyon, which is located in Utah. The displacement of the boulder led to Alan holding his hand; he could not get out. The guy waited a long time for rescuers, but they did not appear. Alan realized that there was only one way to get out - to cut off his hand. It was a difficult decision, but the guy made the right choice and was able to get out. The climber wandered the desert for a long time, until he came across tourists from the Netherlands. 
In 33 km from the coastline of Nigeria, a towing boat sank in 2012. Only Okene survived, who worked as a cook. Harrison found a small cabin where a small air pocket formed. For more than 60 hours, the sailor stayed at a depth of 30 meters. The man was discovered by accident when divers pulled out the corpses of sailors. Jose Salvador Alvarenga
In the life of Jose Salvador, nothing portended trouble, he did not even suspect that someday he would have to fight so hard for life. Jose and the son of a friend who was 15 years old got into a strong storm, they were carried too far from the coast in a seven-meter boat. The young man could not withstand such conditions and died four months later. Salvation came 13 months later, when Jose's boat was nailed to the shores of the Marshall Islands. The fishermen immediately took Salvador to the hospital, where he was given medical assistance. Unfortunately, all the details about this terrible ordeal were never found out. The man partially lost his memory. 
The “Marathon in the Sands” (1994) turned the life of Mauro Prosperi into real hell. The man chose the wrong route and got lost in the desert. When his water supplies were exhausted, the man decided to give up and die. Due to severe dehydration, the blood clotted too quickly and Mauro took it as a kind of sign from above. He began to fight for his life, fed on bats, which he found in a Muslim shrine, drank their blood and urine. For ten incomplete days, Prosperi lost more than 17 kilograms. In an unconscious state, he was discovered by a family of nomads. 
At the age of 11, Norman Ollestad was the last survivor of a plane crash. The plane crashed in the California Mountains at an altitude of more than two thousand meters. The guy was able to independently get to the nearest village alone. Stephen Callahan
In 75 days, Stephen Callahan crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a rescue boat. During a severe storm, the man realized that he needed to act decisively. He took an emergency kit, a two-meter raft and an apparatus for the production of drinking water. After almost three months, the raft, which Stephen was on, washed ashore on the small island of Marie Galant, where fishermen rescued him. 
Larisa Savitskaya is a girl who survived the crash of an airplane at an altitude of more than five thousand meters. Larisa hit the Guinness Book of Records as the person who received the smallest compensation from the insurance company, in the amount of 74 rubles. Luck smiled at the girl, she had to take her wrong place and settle in the rear of the plane. It was this factor that saved Larisa's life in the fall. Juliana Margaret Capke
Juliana Margaret Capke has a truly amazing story that happened at the age of 17. Lightning hit the plane, in which there were 92 passengers, and it crashed, fell from a height of three thousand meters. Juliana is the only one who managed to survive. For nine days the girl made her way through the thicket of the jungle to the settlements. She survived thanks to her father, who taught her survival skills in the rainforests. 
In 1972, the rugby team from Uruguay spent two and a half months at an altitude of 3,500 meters in conditions of eternal cold and lack of food. Rescuers found a total of 16 surviving people from 46 passengers. Based on these events, the film "Survive" was shot. The film adaptation describes in detail all the incredible tests that these people went through. 
In Australia, in 2001, farmers found a skeleton covered in leather that looked a bit like a man. This young man was Ricky Mega, who did not remember anything about what happened. He drove a car along a deserted road, and then a failure. Opening his eyes, Ricky realized that he was lying in the sand and around him a flock of dingoes was walking. For a couple of days, Mega was looking for any signs of life, but eventually gave up and decided to build a hut and remain completely alone. For three months he ate insects, leeches and toads.
When a person is in mortal danger, there is always the possibility that help will never come - or too late. But often a person does not get help or does not wait for it just because he has given up. History knows several amazing cases when people survived primarily because they decided not to give up for anything.
Stuck in Ice: Aron Ralston
In 2003, a young American mountain climber decided to go the route in the Rocky Mountains in the Utah region. Climbing one of the boulders, the guy felt that he had moved. Before Aron had time to blink an eye, he was almost under a stone, and his hand squashed a boulder on a rock so tightly that Aron could not pull it out, no matter how he tried. It was also clear that the arm was broken: Aron felt pain.
One hundred twenty-seven hours Ralston spent trying to free himself. At first he tried to loosen the boulder, then - to beat off pieces from him from the side of his hand. When it became clear that neither the rock nor the stone would succumb, and when help came - a big question, Aron realized that his only chance was to amputate his arm in order to return to people.
Yes, this is terribly reckless, but an experienced climber did not tell anyone that he went to conquer this route. Now it remained only to regret it and look for how to saw off a healthy, muscular male hand. Aron was doubly afraid - and to have an amputation, and not be able to carry it out physically. On the third day, he decided. He ran out of water and food. Further, he would only weaken and could, in the end, just die in a stone trap.
He had to sharpen the knife properly — a very poor penknife — to cut the soft tissues of his hand. But the bones did not succumb to the knife, and, going crazy with pain, Aron began to break them one by one, the benefit of the radius bones is quite thin. Having hardly bandaged the bleeding stump, the guy managed to go down twenty meters along the rock - to the bottom of the canyon, and walked twelve kilometers until he saw a tourist group.
Aron survived and remained relatively healthy. According to his terrible story, the thriller film One Hundred and Twenty-Seven Hours was shot.
Chocolate - salvation for a woman
In 1938, the famous pilot Marina Raskova made a flight as part of the female crew, which was to set a new record for range. Passed over the taiga. At some point, the plane got lost in the clouds, and when it came out of the clouds, it turned out that there was not enough fuel. Commander Valentina Grizodubova decided on an emergency landing. But ... then the navigator’s cabin would inevitably crash, and the navigator — Marina Raskova — would die.At that cost, the pilots did not want to save their lives, and Grizodubova gave Raskova the order to jump with a parachute. It was assumed that after landing Marina would quickly go out to her friends, and together they would get to the people.
Something, however, went wrong. As a result, Raskova had to go through the taiga for ten days, with a pistol and two bars of chocolate. She almost became a prey for a bear, almost drowned in a swamp, going crazy with hunger, tried to fry mushrooms - but started a forest fire (which also stopped the swamp). In any case, she believed that her friends had not abandoned her. Either they are waiting, or they have already sent help.
Marina continued the way anyway, hoping to get out, if not to people, then to the river - as you know, along the river you can usually go to some settlement or at least a hunting lodge. Her friends have long been found; they continued to search for her, although on the tenth day few people believed that Raskova was still alive. Finally, she heard the noise of planes, shots of a rocket launcher. She went to the sounds as fast as she could - she was swayed severely by hunger, fatigue and lack of sleep, besides, Marina lost one boot, she had to walk barefoot over fallen leaves, branches, roots.
At the sight of Raskovoy, rescue pilots rushed to her - they wanted to convey to the aircraft in their arms. But she refused and stumbled herself, leaning on a stick. Later, during World War II, Raskova was among the famous "Night Witches" and died in battle.
Die but don't eat human
Sir Douglas Mawson is one of the legendary conquerors of Antarctica. During the expedition, his detachment was divided into smaller units, three people each. Together with Mawson we walked on the sleigh Belgrave Ninnis and Xavier Merz. During the crossing of the snow bridge, Ninnis failed with his sleigh and dogs - the bridge could not stand it. Almost all supplies failed with him.For several hours, Mawson and Merz tried to figure out whether it was possible to save a comrade. However, the abyss was too deep: its bottom was not visible through binoculars, and no one responded to the cries of men. They had to come to terms with the death of a friend. The question arose, however, how to return without food, human and dog, and almost without equipment. Researchers still had one more sled and some dogs, but these sleds were less loaded than Ninnis. From food there were a few biscuits, chocolate, raisins and pemmican. Very few. To all troubles, it was necessary to find a new snowy bridge to go back, and it took time.
All the way back men were killed in turn by weakened dogs to feed other dogs and eat themselves. Merz got nauseous from his cartilaginous dog meat, so he ate almost only one liver and as a result was poisoned with an excess of vitamin A. Before his death, Merz went crazy, and after his death Mawson wondered for some time whether it would be more reasonable to stop destroying dogs and feed all together by the late Merz. Finally, he decided that it would be better to die as a civilized person or to be saved only on dog meat.
In fact, moving forward, he already realized that the time of departure of the ship waiting for their detachment had passed. The captain had no right to wait for the three of them. Yet Mawson did not give up. He allowed himself to hope and was right. Although he missed the ship - for four hours - on the shore there were several people left with supplies just in case of their appearance with Merz and Ninnis. They also decided not to give up and hope until the end.
The instructors were confused and decided to consult with the group, stay in place, go forward or return to the previous base. This was a fatal mistake. A simple discussion turned into a heated, long-drawn-out debate, and the leaders were clearly defined in this dispute - the recently demobilized guys, strong and very assertive. They just went to the forest to make a fire. Most of the tourists followed, and this again split the group.
In a blizzard, for many, this behavior of death is similar. An organized chain maintains integrity. The divided crowd disperses, not seeing each other, even more. In the mountains, this means not only the opportunity to freeze or get lost, but also fall into a crevice.
Instructors had to split up too. A young man by the name of Safonov was left to gather a group scattered on the slope, the girl Olya Kovaleva took the undecided and led them to the nearest base. From there, she was going to send help to that part of the group that her partner would collect.
She was able to bring “her” children to the shepherd’s hut and report what had happened, but the act was worth her sight. In order not to stray from the road, she, who was walking in front, was forced to constantly open her eyes towards the piercing snow croup. Eyes were damaged hopelessly.
The runaway Safonov did not listen. They saw that the healthy guys managed to make a fire, and hurried to it. Many fell, broke their legs, called for help. The guys around the fire ignored all the screams. They drank vodka and felt great.
The guys who listened to Safonov also lit a fire - a little off. The instructor ordered that the fire be kept going away for firewood, but when he returned with several girls he had found, he found that the men had not even moved around the fire. The saving fire died out, and the tourists simply huddled together, trying to keep warm. When Safonov again lit the fire, the men pushed away the weakened girls to be near the fire.
Meanwhile, two shepherds came out of the hut. One of them almost immediately dragged two discovered girls into the hut and asked the tourist guys to help bring another one that fell into the beam. All, as one, refused, and the shepherd Ostritsov himself carried her chest in the snow. He turned to the tourists over and over again, telling where to take the wounded comrades, but in the end no one began to collect them - although several guys pretended to go away but did not find the wounded in the snow.
Under one of the firs, a guy and a girl hid from a blizzard. The guy decided to go out for his backpack - there were matches in it, the girl was left to wait for him. Alas, he got lost and fell into the abyss. He was found the last of the dead. And a lot of people died in that blizzard - twenty-one people out of fifty-three.
The girl was found last. She had no food, no matches, she was wet through and through. As soon as the snowstorm ended, she built a hut, but found that she could not warm in it. She punched a path around the fir and ran along this path to keep warm. She ran for three days, not letting herself fall, fall asleep, give up. She believed that a Soviet citizen would certainly be sought.
On the third day, the girl saw a rescue helicopter and climbed the slope. The girl's name was Svetlana Vertikush, and she was the only one who remained in the forest on the route and survived. In addition to her, the rescuers collected only the corpses.
As for the guys with vodka at the first campfire, they had everything: matches, cards, warm clothes, medicines, bandages, food. In addition, they took things from other weakened tourists. When the blizzard subsided, the guys had a quiet breakfast, robbed a few of the dying and the dead, and went further along the route, not trying to find and save anyone. And in the morning there was still someone to save - many of those who fell into the beam did not die immediately, they did not immediately die and frostbite. At the trial, the looters were acquitted. No one could believe that they had done it in cold blood, and the judges decided that they were influenced by the extreme situation.
Woman and the ocean
In 1983, two lovers, Tami Ashcraft and Richard Sharp, volunteered to overtake a small yacht from Tahiti to San Diego. They were supposed to cope in a month. Both were experienced boaters. But in the middle of the way, a small little ship was covered with a terrible hurricane. Richard sent Tami under some pretext into the hold, and until the very end he tried to keep the yacht keel down at the helm.Alas, the storm turned out to be stronger than man. The yacht was turned over. Richard was knocked out of a life jacket and he drowned. Tami hit her head and fainted for a while. When she woke up, she realized that she was sitting inside an overturned ship - all exits were only in the water, and that Richard was dead. The mast is broken. The engine is out of order. The radio was silent. Tami had only a sextant and some supplies - which would be useless if she could not turn the yacht over.
The girl dragged the whole load on one side of the hold for a long time, hoping that the yacht that would become unstable would be turned over by the wave. Then she had to hastily redistribute the cargo back, because the yacht was about to roll over again. Then Tami built a shaky and not very reliable mast and sail. By sextant, trying to maneuver with a makeshift sail, she stubbornly walked to land.
To drink, the girl pulled up an awning and collected dew from it in the morning. She had no other source of fresh water. So that the food would not end so quickly, she tried to fish. Tami swam, hoping that they were looking for her and she would see help sooner than the shore. But they with Richard recognized dead ...
Forty days after the disaster, all the inhabitants of the Hawaiian port fled to see a strange boat approaching from the open ocean. He had a makeshift mast and sail, and a very thin girl in very tattered clothes stood at the helm. It was Tami, of course.
She not only survived, but also did not give up her favorite sport. Continued to sail. Happily married. And about those forty days I wrote a book - "Red Sky in the Morning." Not to become famous. To defeat depression.
Fortunately, these are far from all cases of salvation. In July 2018, in Thailand, a team of soccer boys was lost in the caves, and they were able to wait until the rescuers found them nine days later. All thanks to the coach, who reassured the children and taught them how to meditate, and also tightly controlled their food reserves. Ah, shocking even more.
Incredible facts
In films, you can often see people who, despite everything, were able to survive, but, as a rule, this is just fiction.
But there are people who, thanks to luck and resourcefulness, challenged nature and survived in the most difficult conditions.
Here are their stories, which seem incredible, are real.
1. Anna Bagenholm - revived after freezing
Anna Elizabeth Johansson Bagenholm (Anna Elisabeth Johansson Bågenholm) - a girl working as a radiologist who survived an accident in 1999 after 80 minutes in ice water under a layer of ice.
At that time her body temperature dropped to 13, 7 ° C, and this is the lowest temperature at which a person survived with hypothermia.
Anna rode down a steep slope, but lost control and fell head down into a frozen stream near a waterfall. The girl’s head and body were under water under a 20-cm layer of ice, while her legs and skis remained over the ice.
Anna found an air pocket between ice and water and was able to breathe for 40 minutes. Her rescue from the water took 80 minutes, and when they pulled her out, she there were no signs of life. After she was taken to the hospital, they tried to resuscitate the girl, and only after 3 hours her heart began to beat again.
She was alive and paralyzed, but gradually recovered. Doctors say that she managed to survive due to the fact that her body fell into a state of "hibernation".
2. Mauro Prosperi - survived 9 days in the Sahara desert
Marathon runner Mauro Prosperi survived in the Sahara desert for more than a week without water and food. During a marathon in Morocco, he lost his way due to a sandstorm and went about 300 kilometers in the wrong direction.
Mauro drank his urinein order to survive, he walked only in the morning and in the evening, and during the day rested. He found a small chapel, caught a few bats and drank their blood (bat meat would have caused even greater dehydration).
The marathon runner even tried to commit suicide, wrote a note to his wife and cut his veins, but his blood thickened and clotted.
This became a sign for the man, and he decided to continue on his way. 5 days after they left the chapel and 8 days of using almost one urine, he found a small oasis, and two days later Mauro was found by nomads who took him to a military camp and then to a hospital. During this time he lost 18 kg of weight.
3. Spring Vulovich - a stewardess who survived after falling from a height of 10 thousand meters
Spring Vulovich was not supposed to fly that flight, but due to the fact that her name was confused with the name of another stewardess, she was on board. January 26, 1972 plane Yugoslav Airlines DC-9 set off from Copenhagen to Belgrade via Zagreb. On board were 28 passengers and crew. At an altitude of 10,160 meters, a bomb exploded in the luggage compartment of the aircraft. Presumably, it was a terrorist act.
The plane crashed and crashed in the mountains, which led to the death of 27 people. The only survivor was the stewardess Vesna Vulovichthat was in the tail of the plane.
The catastrophe led to a fracture of the skull, legs, three vertebrae, one of which was crushed, because of which her body was paralyzed from the waist to the legs.
Vulovich spent several months in the hospital, but after the operations she was able to walk again.
Her name was entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the person who survived the longest drop without a parachute.
4. Frane Selak - seven accidents, one lottery win
Croatian music teacher Frane Selak can be called either very unlucky or a very unlucky person. is he survived seven accidents and he always managed to escape death.
His adventures began in January 1962, when Selak was in a train to Dubrovnik, which rolled off the rails and fell into the ice riverkilling 17 passengers. The man escaped with a broken arm, small cuts and bruises.
A year later, when Selak flew from Zagreb to Rijeka, the door of the plane suddenly opened, and passengers were taken off the plane, killing 19 people. However, Selak landed on a haystack and woke up a few days later in the hospital with minor injuries.
In 1966, there was a third accident when he was driving on a bus that crashed and fell into the river. Four people died, but Selak again managed to survive.
In 1970, Selak was driving when he suddenly the car caught fire. He managed to get out of the car before the gas tank exploded. Three years later, another man's car caught fire again, due to which he lost most of his hair.
In 1995, Selak was in Zagreb when his hit the busbut again the Croat escaped with only minor injuries. The following year, when he was driving along a mountain road, he avoided a collision at the last moment when a truck was riding on him. The man jumped onto a tree and was able to watch his a car that exploded 90 meters below it.
In 2003, 81-year-old Selak won 600,000 pounds in the lottery.
5. Roy Sullivan - 7 times struck by lightning
They say that lightning never strikes in one place twice. However american forester Roy Sullivan lightning struck 7 times and he was able to survive.
In 1942, the first lightning struck Sullivan's leg, which caused the nail on his thumb to come off. In 1969, after a second lightning strike his eyebrows burnedand he passed out.
In 1970, a third lightning led to shoulder injury. In 1972 from a lightning strike his hair caught fire, and he knocked over a bucket of water to cool himself.
In August 1973, lightning tore his hat and hit him on the head, his hair caught fire again, he was thrown out of the truck and his left boot was ripped off.
In June 1976, the sixth lightning strike led to ankle injuryand in 1977 the last lightning strike ended burns to the chest and abdomen. His wife was also struck by lightning once while she was hanging laundry in the yard. In September 1983, Roy Sullivan died at the age of 71, committing suicide due to unrequited love.
6. Joe Simpson - fell into an ice crevice and got out for three days
Joe Simpson was one of two British climbers to climb the 6344-meter summit of Siul Grande in the Peruvian Andes.
An accident occurred on the descent when Simpson broke his leg. His partner Simon Yates (Simon Yates) decided to tie his friend to the cable, going down with him. But at some point he had to cut the cable and Simpson fell down 30 meters into an ice crevice.
