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.

Harrison Okene was hired to cook for people on board Jackson-4 when it capsized. He had gone to the toilet when the tragedy occurred off the Nigerian coast. Luckily for him, he survived in an air bubble for three days before rescuers looking for the surface of the boat discovered him. Since the incidence in 2013, he vowed never to be on board a boat again.

28 men set out on an Endurance expedition in 1914. Their ship got stuck in ice in the Antarctica. The ice was too much and their ship named Endurance got stuck. They used life boats to access the nearest island over 14 days. From there, the nearest inhabited island was in Georgian territory and 1000 miles away. Though all crew members survived, their dogs were not lucky after their rations run 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.

Apollo 13 crew made a miraculous return to earth in 1970 after their shuttle was damaged during launch. Attempted re-entry was a gamble. They only had ration to last one and a half days for two people. It eventually took them three days to make the daring return. They used a lunar lifeboat that landed them safely back to earth. The only harm they encountered was severe dehydration especially for Hayse.

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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