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INSANE survival stories Part 1 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: When I was in college, I went on a cruise
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  Speaker 1: from Florida down to the Bahamas and then back. About
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  Speaker 1: halfway to the Bahamas, we hit some bad weather. The
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  Speaker 1: boat was rocking pretty aggressively, to the point where we
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  Speaker 1: weren't allowed to go onto the upper decks of the ship.
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  Speaker 1: Chairs and tables were shifting around. The crew and the
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  Speaker 1: staff were unconcerned. This is something that been through. They
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  Speaker 1: sail this route regularly, they know the ship is equipped
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  Speaker 1: to handle pretty rough weather. But as a passenger, it
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  Speaker 1: was really terrifying to just suddenly realize that despite the safety,
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  Speaker 1: the perceived safety of this huge, multi one hundred million
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  Speaker 1: dollars ship, the reality is is when you're out in
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  Speaker 1: the ocean, mother nature is going to do whatever it's
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  Speaker 1: going to do.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Fortunately, the weather did subside, and sure enough the ship
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  Speaker 1: was fine.
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  Speaker 2: And we sailed through it. But it always.
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  Speaker 1: Stuck with me that if you're out in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the ocean and something goes bad, it goes really bad.
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  Speaker 1: The two stories I'm going to share are about groups
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  Speaker 1: of people that were out on the ocean and something
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  Speaker 1: went bad, very very bad. Before we get going on
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  Speaker 1: let's get into the stories. In the very early hours
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  Speaker 1: of May twenty six, twenty thirteen, three tugboats were towing
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  Speaker 1: this massive Chevron oil tanker in.
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  Speaker 2: The Gulf of Guinea.
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  Speaker 1: They were about thirty two kilometers off the coast of Nigeria.
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  Speaker 1: Two of the tugboats were pressed up against the sides
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  Speaker 1: of this huge tanker to provide stability as it gets towed.
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  Speaker 1: The third tugboat, which was called the jascone four, sat
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  Speaker 1: way out in front, had the main tow line strapped
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  Speaker 1: to the front of the tanker and was doing.
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  Speaker 2: All of the actual towing.
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  Speaker 1: On board that lead tugboat, the jascin four were twelve
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  Speaker 1: crew members who had all been hired by a company
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  Speaker 1: called West African Ventures. It was a Nigerian based company.
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  Speaker 1: They owned the ship, and they had contracted them to
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  Speaker 1: come out and be a part of this towing operation.
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  Speaker 1: One of the crew members was a man named Harrison O'Keen.
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  Speaker 1: He was from Nigeria and he was the ship's cook.
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  Speaker 1: At around four forty five that morning, Harrison was in
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  Speaker 1: his quarters. He had been sleeping, but he had woken
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  Speaker 1: up because the ship was swaying pretty dramatically. It was
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  Speaker 1: very rough seas, but he liked the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: crew were accustomed to rough, choppy water.
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  Speaker 2: So he gets up.
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  Speaker 1: He unlocks his bedroom door, and he goes out into
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  Speaker 1: the hall. When he looks down the hall, he sees
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  Speaker 1: that all of the other doors are shut and locked.
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  Speaker 2: The crew of the jascone.
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  Speaker 1: Four had a policy that whenever they slept or were
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  Speaker 1: in their rooms, they would shut and lock the doors
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  Speaker 1: because piracy is a really big threat.
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  Speaker 2: After Harrison looked down the.
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  Speaker 1: Hall at all of these locked doors, he started making
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  Speaker 1: his way down the hall in the other direction, towards
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom. He kind of stumbled down the hall as
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  Speaker 1: the ship rocked from the.
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  Speaker 2: Very rough seas.
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  Speaker 1: He gets to the bathroom and shuts the door. At
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  Speaker 1: four point fifty in the morning. We know this because
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  Speaker 1: at four point fifty in the morning, a rogue wave
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  Speaker 1: hit the side of jaskin For and almost completely flipped
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  Speaker 1: it upside down, snapped the tow line. The ship is
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  Speaker 1: completely on its side and it's sinking very fast. He
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  Speaker 1: tried to push open the metal bathroom door, but already
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  Speaker 1: a surge of water is coming down the hall and
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  Speaker 1: pressing him into the bathroom. Pushes against that surge of
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  Speaker 1: water and gets the door open, and now he's standing
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  Speaker 1: on the ceiling of the hallway that he was just
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  Speaker 1: in a moment ago, because the boat is now completely inverted,
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  Speaker 1: and he's looking down the hall. Three of the crew
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  Speaker 1: members have managed to come out of their locked rooms
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  Speaker 1: and in a panic, are trying to.
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  Speaker 2: Make their way up to the exit.
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  Speaker 1: He sees them as another surge of water blasts them
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  Speaker 1: through one of the windows and literally sweeps them away,
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  Speaker 1: and he.
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  Speaker 2: Knows they're dead.
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  Speaker 1: The power cuts out right as another surge of water
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  Speaker 1: is coming down the hall to him. He turns his
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  Speaker 1: body in this rush of seawater. This freezing seawater comes
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  Speaker 1: pouring down the hall and it takes Harrison and throws
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  Speaker 1: him down this little hallway and slams him into yet
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  Speaker 1: another bathroom. It was actually an officer's bathroom. It was
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  Speaker 1: connected to an officer's room, and so now he's inside
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  Speaker 1: of this other bathroom and he's kind of like clamoring
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  Speaker 1: naturally instinctively to go up to try to get to air,
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  Speaker 1: because that's what anyone would do if you're underwater in
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  Speaker 1: a panic. And as he's swimming up, he couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: When he gets to air, his head clears the surface
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  Speaker 1: in the bathroom and he's in an air pocket, but
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  Speaker 1: it's pitch black. All the power is out, the ship
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  Speaker 1: is rapidly sinking, the water is freezing. Harrison has only
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  Speaker 1: got his boxer shorts on. He doesn't have a light source,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't have food, he doesn't have water, and he
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  Speaker 1: has this couple cubic feet of air that any moment
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  Speaker 1: he's waiting for it to collapse. He knows these are
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  Speaker 1: his final moments, and he remembers a prayer that his
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  Speaker 1: wife had texted him before he started this particular job,
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  Speaker 1: and he started reciting the prayer in his head as
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  Speaker 1: he waited to die. The ship slams into the ocean floor,
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  Speaker 1: but the air pocket doesn't collapse, so Harrison is in
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  Speaker 1: this tiny little air pocket thirty meters below the ocean's surface.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, even though Harrison has no idea how
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  Speaker 1: he just survived the shipwreck, he now has to deal
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  Speaker 1: with the fact that he's eventually going to run out
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  Speaker 1: of air. He'll die of dehydration, he'll die of exposure.
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  Speaker 1: He's in freezing water up to his neck, and most terrifyingly,
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  Speaker 1: sharks and other animals are going to start converging on
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  Speaker 1: the ship to look for food. And he is in
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  Speaker 1: a bathroom that although there's the air pocket, the door
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  Speaker 1: is open into the main hall and his entire body
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  Speaker 1: is inside of this bathroom. Meaning if a shark were
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  Speaker 1: in the hallway swimming down the inside of this hall
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  Speaker 1: and it made it to the bathroom, he's completely exposed.
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  Speaker 2: With no way to shut the door.
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  Speaker 1: It was wedged open, so his lower half is completely
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  Speaker 1: exposed to whatever wildlife is inside of the ship. So
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  Speaker 1: he literally is just waiting to die. He just doesn't
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  Speaker 1: know how he's going to die. After sitting there for
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  Speaker 1: quite a while, he started to feel very cold, and
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  Speaker 1: he knew that if he didn't find a way to
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  Speaker 1: get his body a little bit higher into the air, pocket,
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  Speaker 1: basically get his upper body out of the water, that
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  Speaker 1: he was certainly going to die soon just from hypothermia.
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  Speaker 1: Even though he knew he was doomed, his will to
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  Speaker 1: live was just it was bubbling through.
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  Speaker 2: He did not want to die yet.
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  Speaker 1: And as he's sitting there, thinking how is he going
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  Speaker 1: to get himself up into this air pocket because he
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  Speaker 1: had nothing he could step on or kind of stand on,
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  Speaker 1: he realized that right next to him there was the
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  Speaker 1: officer's room.
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  Speaker 2: This was the officer's bathroom, and the door was open.
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  Speaker 1: He could if you wanted to, he could dive down
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  Speaker 1: and swim through the door, go into the officer's bedroom
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  Speaker 1: and look for supplies. And in his mind he thought
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  Speaker 1: he could probably pull off some of the paneling, because
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be pitch black in there. If you
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  Speaker 1: just swim straight to the far side of the room,
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  Speaker 1: he could get to some of the fake wood paneling
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  Speaker 1: or whatever it was.
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  Speaker 2: And he could yank it down.
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  Speaker 1: And as he's building up his courage to dive into
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  Speaker 1: pitch black water, he starts hearing this horrible sound of
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  Speaker 1: large sea creatures smashing into the boat. They were basically
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  Speaker 1: looking for entrance points into the boat, and then they
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  Speaker 1: would come into the boat, sharks, and he could hear
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  Speaker 1: them bumping up against the insides of the ship, and all.
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  Speaker 2: He's thinking is, I'm completely exposed. I'm doomed.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go, I gotta go in there. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: at least make an attempt to save myself. And so,
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  Speaker 1: listening to sharks and other animals searching for things to eat,
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  Speaker 1: he takes a deep breath, and in total darkness, he
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  Speaker 1: dives down and swims into the officer's bedroom.
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  Speaker 2: And as he's swimming, because he's just.
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  Speaker 1: Going straight across to the far wall to start yanking
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  Speaker 1: on that paneling, he's bumping into things that he believes
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  Speaker 1: our bodies. He doesn't know, but he thinks they are.
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  Speaker 1: He gets to the far wall and he yanks off
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  Speaker 1: a piece of paneling. He swims back one successful trip,
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  Speaker 1: he goes back down, and he makes a number of
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  Speaker 1: trips until he's able to fashion that little raft he
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  Speaker 1: had in mind, like a little step stool that pushed
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  Speaker 1: him up into the air pocket to where half of
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  Speaker 1: his upper body was now out of the freezing water. Also,
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  Speaker 1: while he was in the officer's room, even though it
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  Speaker 1: was pitch black, he was kind of like feeling around
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  Speaker 1: for things, and he wound up finding a bottle of
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  Speaker 1: soda and a flashlight. So he turns on his flashlight
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  Speaker 1: and he drinks his soda, and he just takes a breath.
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  Speaker 1: Even though he's still in the same terrible situation, he's
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  Speaker 1: thankful for that little victory. About twenty four hours would
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  Speaker 1: go by where he has his light on and he's
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  Speaker 1: nursing the soda. He knows he's either going to die
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  Speaker 1: from sharks, hypothermia, dehydration, something's going to kill him. But
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  Speaker 1: part of him is thinking, maybe if a dive team
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  Speaker 1: is able to locate the ship, they're gonna come down
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  Speaker 1: to retrieve bodies, and maybe they'll find me. Maybe I
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  Speaker 1: can hold out that long. And so as he's as
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  Speaker 1: he's thinking about this, he's getting a little flicker of hope.
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  Speaker 1: Two horrible things happen. His light goes out, flashlight doesn't work.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time that he describes hearing the large
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  Speaker 1: sea creatures make their way into the officer's room right
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  Speaker 1: next to him. So I want you to think about this.
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  Speaker 1: You're at the bottom of the ocean, You're in a
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  Speaker 1: ship that has sunk, You're in a little air pocket.
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  Speaker 1: You really don't have any supplies to last longer than
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  Speaker 1: a few days. It's total darkness. You had your flashlight,
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  Speaker 1: it's gone out. It's totally dark. A shark that has
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  Speaker 1: been eating your friends, or more than one shark, is
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  Speaker 1: now literally feet away from you, and you can hear
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  Speaker 1: it eating the bodies that apparently are in there. You
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  Speaker 1: are exposed to them because there's an entrance to that room.
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  Speaker 1: There's an entrance to the hall. The fear must have
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  Speaker 1: been indescribable. For the next thirty six hours, Harrison sat
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  Speaker 1: there listening to a shark slam into the wall but
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  Speaker 1: never attack him. He heard sharks in the main section
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  Speaker 1: of the ship bumping around, waiting at any moment that
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  Speaker 1: if the.
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  Speaker 2: Ship were to just tilt a little bit, his air
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  Speaker 2: pocket's going to collapse.
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  Speaker 1: It's unfathomable how terrible those thirty six hours must have been.
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  Speaker 1: At the sixty hour mark, he hears what sounds like
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  Speaker 1: something metal banging on the outside of the ship. He
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  Speaker 1: notices through the hallway because he has a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a vantage point through the water down the hall in
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  Speaker 1: front of him. He sees a flicker of light and
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  Speaker 1: there's no light down here, so it really stood out.
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  Speaker 1: Without even thinking about it, he takes a deep breath
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  Speaker 1: and swims right into the hallway, the one place he
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  Speaker 1: had not been since he had gone into.
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  Speaker 2: The bathroom because there are sharks.
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  Speaker 1: And he starts swimming farther and farther and farther away
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  Speaker 1: from his air pocket, and he's running out of air.
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  Speaker 1: He can't find the light. He doesn't even know if
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  Speaker 1: he saw a light. He thinks he might be hallucinating,
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  Speaker 1: and he's realizing, I'm almost out.
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  Speaker 2: Of air, you know.
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  Speaker 1: He's looking around and he decides I got to go
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  Speaker 1: back to my air pocket. And he turns around. He's
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  Speaker 1: trying to swim back. He's looking for his bathroom. He's
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  Speaker 1: swimming as fast as he can. He's about to run
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  Speaker 1: out of air, and he makes it to his airpocket.
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  Speaker 1: His head goes up and he takes a big breath,
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  Speaker 1: and he's not sure if he really actually saw.
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  Speaker 2: The light or not. And he's thinking that was it.
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  Speaker 2: I thought I was going to be rescued, but I
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  Speaker 2: was just imagining it. And then a miracle.
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  Speaker 1: It was a diver and the diver had come back.
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  Speaker 1: The diver was part of a crew that had been
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  Speaker 1: sent down to recover bodies. No one lives for three
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  Speaker 1: days underwater. So the diver comes down his way, and
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  Speaker 1: Harrison knew that he was going to scare the daylights
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  Speaker 1: out of this diver, and so he gently touched him
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  Speaker 1: on the back, and the diver reacts really violently because
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  Speaker 1: he's expecting it to be an animal of some kind.
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  Speaker 1: And Harrison reaches out and just grabs the diver's hand
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  Speaker 1: and squeezes it gently and shows.
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  Speaker 2: Him his hand.
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  Speaker 1: And the diver's got a big light on his head,
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  Speaker 1: pokes his head up into this air pocket. You see
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  Speaker 1: this man that for the past thirty six hours has
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  Speaker 1: been in total darkness with absolutely no way out. He
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  Speaker 1: was done for, and the look on Harrison's face is
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  Speaker 1: just it's priceless. They fitted Harrison with a dive mask
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  Speaker 1: and they brought him up. He did not immediately go
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  Speaker 1: to the surface because he had been at depth for
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  Speaker 1: so long. He had to go through something called decompression.
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  Speaker 1: If he had just breathed air at normal pressure, he
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  Speaker 1: would have died. So they put him in a decompression
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  Speaker 1: chamber for sixty hours before actually bringing him to the surface,
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  Speaker 1: and so ultimately Harrison was okay, but the trauma of
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  Speaker 1: this experience was so extreme that to this day, Harrison's
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  Speaker 1: wife says that basically every night he wakes up thinking
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  Speaker 1: he's on a sinking ship. In October of nineteen eighty two,
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  Speaker 1: Deborah Kylie and her four friends were hired by a
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  Speaker 1: billionaire to take his brand new luxury eighteen meter yacht
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  Speaker 1: called the trash Man from Maine all the way down
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  Speaker 1: to Florida, pretty significant journey along the east coast of
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  Speaker 1: the United States. Deborah and her friends were very experienced sailors.
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  Speaker 1: They had done trips like this before, driving these luxury
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  Speaker 1: yachts around. This was just going to be a great trip.
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  Speaker 1: The weather was beautiful, the forecast looked perfect, and.
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  Speaker 2: They were off.
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  Speaker 1: Two days into their journey, when they were off the
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  Speaker 1: coast of North Carolina, a freak storm came out of nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, their ship is in this massive,
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  Speaker 1: massive storm, and despite their best efforts to keep water
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  Speaker 1: from coming in, eventually the ship begins to sink. And
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  Speaker 1: so as the ship is clearly sinking, the crew has
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  Speaker 1: to abandon it and they jump into the violently surging
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  Speaker 1: sea and they climb aboard this little tiny life raft
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  Speaker 1: with no food, no water, no life saving equipment, and Meg,
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  Speaker 1: who was one of her friends, one of Deborah's friends,
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  Speaker 1: had cut open her leg really badly when the ship
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  Speaker 1: was initially sinking. Something had fell and cut her leg,
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  Speaker 1: so she's bleeding into the water. As they clamored into
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  Speaker 1: this dinghy, Deba remembers something nudging one of her legs
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  Speaker 1: and looking out and not just seeing one or two sharks,
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  Speaker 1: but she described seeing hundreds of sharks. Eighteen foot long
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  Speaker 1: tiger sharks who will eat almost anything including people, had
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  Speaker 1: detected Meg's bleeding leg when she was holding onto the
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  Speaker 1: dinghy before she climbed in. They had all swarmed the
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  Speaker 1: area and they start feeling bumps underneath their raft as
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  Speaker 1: the tiger sharks are swimming up and ramming into them.
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  Speaker 1: The storm ultimately passed and daylight broke, and they're out
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  Speaker 1: in this dinghy.
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  Speaker 2: They don't know what to do.
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  Speaker 1: They're surrounded by all these sharks that are literally swimming
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  Speaker 1: around them. They have no resources, they have nothing, they
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  Speaker 1: have no way to save themselves. Meg was becoming very
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  Speaker 1: sick from the wound in her leg, and everyone knew
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  Speaker 1: that probably they were.
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  Speaker 2: Going to die out here.
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  Speaker 1: So desperately thirsty were some of the crew members that
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  Speaker 1: they began leaning over and drinking seawater until they would vomit.
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  Speaker 1: And it was around this time when they were drinking
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  Speaker 1: seawater on the third day that some.
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  Speaker 2: Of the hallucinations began.
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  Speaker 1: They all would see ships in the distance, and they
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  Speaker 1: would hear things that weren't really there. They were losing it.
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  Speaker 1: And it was also around this time that John, one
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  Speaker 1: of the crew members, said that he saw land and
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  Speaker 1: he leapt out of the boat. They screamed for him
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  Speaker 1: to come back, but he lost his mind, and they
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  Speaker 1: said he only made it about a few meters away
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  Speaker 1: from the boat before they hear him start screaming and
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  Speaker 1: the sharks swarm him and pull him under the water.
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  Speaker 1: Gebro would say that when this happened, they heard the
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  Speaker 1: scream and they all ducked down inside of the boat,
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  Speaker 1: didn't say a word, didn't even react to it. They
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  Speaker 1: knew what was happening, and they knew what was going
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  Speaker 1: to happen to them. They were all going to die
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  Speaker 1: out here. Shortly after John had jumped in the water
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  Speaker 1: and been eaten by sharks, Mark stands up and says
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  Speaker 1: that he needs to get something at the store. He
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  Speaker 1: was clearly hallucinating the other three. They tell him, you're hallucinating,
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  Speaker 1: get back here, sit back down. He wasn't having it,
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  Speaker 1: and he stepped off the boat. Just like John, the
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  Speaker 1: sharks swarm him, except they pull him underneath their life raft.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, Debra would say that the violence of the
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  Speaker 1: sharks attacking him caused their dinghy to spin, and much
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  Speaker 1: like when John had been attacked, they all just laid
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  Speaker 1: there in silence because they knew that they were all doomed.
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  Speaker 1: By the fourth day, everybody was on a steady decline.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't have any water, any food. Meg especially was
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  Speaker 1: outright dying. I mean, she had this horrible wound that
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  Speaker 1: had gone untreated.
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  Speaker 2: And at some.
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  Speaker 1: Point Debra and the other crew member who was not hurt.
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  Speaker 2: His name was Brad they fell.
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  Speaker 1: Asleep and when they woke up, Meg had passed away
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  Speaker 1: from her infection. It took off her jewelry and any
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  Speaker 1: of her valuables they could give to her family, and
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  Speaker 1: then they put her on.
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  Speaker 2: The edge of the boat.
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  Speaker 1: They said a couple words, a little funeral for her,
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  Speaker 1: and then they pushed her into the water and then
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  Speaker 1: they laid down inside of the raft as the sharks attacked.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: At this point, Debrah and Brad the last two. They
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  Speaker 1: are laying in this lifeboat, fully exposed to the elements.
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  Speaker 1: They have no way to see save themselves, and at
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  Speaker 1: some point they fell asleep and they probably thought they
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: wouldn't wake up again. But they woke up on the
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: fifth day and Brad looks out and thinks he sees
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  Speaker 1: a ship, and so he looks down and looks back
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  Speaker 1: up to make sure he's not hallucinating, and he still
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  Speaker 1: sees the ship. He looks down again and looks back
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  Speaker 1: up and it's still a ship, and it's coming closer
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  Speaker 1: to them, and he tells Deborah, hey, there's a ship.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not imagining it. There's a ship. And she does
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: the same thing. She kind of looks looks away, like
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: is that really a ship? And sure enough it was,
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  Speaker 1: and they start waving and using all their energy to
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: try to get this ship.
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  Speaker 2: To see them, and the ship has clearly seen them.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: They're waving back.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: That ship would end up coming over, scooping up Deborah
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: and Brad, getting them to a hospital, and they would
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: make full recoveries. Deborah would go on to be an
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: incredible motivational speaker, as you can imagine with an experience
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: like that, and she also wrote a book about her
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: experience being lost at sea.
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  Speaker 2: Brad would actually.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Continue to go back to see he was an accomplished mariner.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: He would end up becoming the captain of his own ship,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and he would regularly say that route that they crashed on.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: It's hard to imagine Harrison, Debra and Brad going back
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  Speaker 1: to a normal life, but ultimately they did. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they had this incredible experience. I'm sure it was incredibly traumatic,
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  Speaker 1: purpose in the life that they were now being gifted
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: because they really should not have been alive. Debra would
• 18:21
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• 18:23
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