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A story of survival

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Bill McIntyre

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This isn't about a diver, but it describes a situation in which divers might find themselves. It describes how the US Coast Guard tries to search for someone lost at sea, and it shows how keeping your wits about you and having a strong will to survive can matter.

If you can keep a dry eye until the end, you're tougher than I am.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/m...-sea.html?pagewanted=1&rref=magazine&hpw&_r=0
 
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Never been abandoned, never lost at sea, but more than once I've come up to find the boat nowhere in sight. Its a nasty feeling. I can't even imagine how Aldridge felt.

Thanks for posting that.


Connor
 
Great story needs to be told to many.Thanks for sharing it really gets to you.Can slightly relate to that, as was lost for 1/2hour in Red Sea in shark Ally with no boats in sight with a leg less dive buddy!but that's another story.
 
Awesome read bill, thanks foe posting. Reminds me of that Kevin Costner movie about the coast guard rescue swimmers.... thanks for posting...

Denian.... I'm intrigued!
 
Just goes to show--never, ever, give up--regardless of which end of the search you're on.
 
Read it again on the train in this morning and was misting up quite a bit too the amusement of my fellow passengers. Awesome story and very well written.
 
The author had me at the last "Mark, Mark, Mark."

I was overwhelmed by how the guy in the water must have felt to see that helo turning back, and how the helo crew must have felt to have spotted that speck in the ocean.
 
Would you carry that with you in the water? I have a PLB, but its in my boat.
 
Great story, Bill. I was okay until the Coast Guard radioed the boat and notified his best friend that he was alive. Amazing story. Thanks for sharing.
 
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