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Top 3 CRAZY ways people escaped DEATH Part 2 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today, we're going to look at three of the most
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  Speaker 1: incredible survival stories of all time. But before we get
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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. In nineteen ninety four, thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine year old Maro Prosperi took part in the Brutal
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  Speaker 1: Marathon des Sables, which is a six day endurance race
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  Speaker 1: covering one hundred and fifty five miles through the Sahara Desert.
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  Speaker 1: The competition was known as one of the toughest in
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  Speaker 1: the world, but Prosperi was a former limit athlete and
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  Speaker 1: he kept himself in unbelievable physical shape. He was also
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  Speaker 1: a police officer back in Italy, which kept him even
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  Speaker 1: more active, so he felt ready the competition's desert terrain
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  Speaker 1: was so dangerous that participants had to indicate where they
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  Speaker 1: wanted their bodies sent if they did not survive the race.
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  Speaker 1: In preparation for the race, Prosperi would run twenty five
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  Speaker 1: miles a day for weeks leading up to it, and
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  Speaker 1: he would give himself less and less water as he
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  Speaker 1: was running to get accustomed to dehydration. But despite how
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  Speaker 1: much he was training and his incredible athletic resume that
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  Speaker 1: showed he's someone that can probably do this. His wife
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  Speaker 1: was very concerned, but he would tell her, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the worst thing that's going to happen to me is
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  Speaker 1: I'll get a little sunburned. The race kicked off at
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  Speaker 1: its starting point in Morocco on April tenth, and initially
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  Speaker 1: it was going very smoothly. Prosperi was always at the
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  Speaker 1: front of the pack and he was always the first
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  Speaker 1: Italian to finish that day stage. And so when he
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  Speaker 1: would finish, he would go to his tent and he'd
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  Speaker 1: put an Italian flag on the outside to show the
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  Speaker 1: other Italians doing the race where they could find him
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  Speaker 1: to come inside and check, and he would say that
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  Speaker 1: part of the race was really fun. Then things went
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  Speaker 1: wrong on the fourth day, during the longest and most
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  Speaker 1: difficult phase of the race. When he set out that morning,
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  Speaker 1: it was already very windy, and he found himself in
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  Speaker 1: this section between these two big sand dunes, and the
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  Speaker 1: pacesetters had already gone way ahead, so he's totally alone,
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  Speaker 1: and then out of nowhere, this massive sandstorm kicks up
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  Speaker 1: and completely blinds him. He can't go anywhere because he
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  Speaker 1: can't see where he's going, and so he manages to
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  Speaker 1: kind of feel his way to this rock where he
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  Speaker 1: gets down behind this rock, and he thinks to himself,
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  Speaker 1: I'll just wait it out and then continue on. But
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  Speaker 1: the sandstorm raged for eight hours, and when it was
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  Speaker 1: finally done, it was totally dark outside, so Prospery couldn't
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  Speaker 1: see anything. So he decides, you know what, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to sleep on the dunes and tomorrow morning I'll
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  Speaker 1: have to get up and keep going. And his biggest
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  Speaker 1: concern at this point was not that he was in
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  Speaker 1: a survival situation. It was, man, I was in fourth
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  Speaker 1: place in this race, and now with this huge step back,
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  Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna finish last. And so when he went
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  Speaker 1: to sleep that night, all he was thinking about, is man,
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  Speaker 1: I got to get up and go as fast as
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  Speaker 1: I can, so I don't finish last tomorrow. But when
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  Speaker 1: the sun came up the next morning, pros Ferry looked
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  Speaker 1: around and he realized he had a much bigger problem.
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  Speaker 1: The sandstorm had been so strong it had completely altered
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  Speaker 1: the landscape, the dunes that all moved around. He had
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  Speaker 1: no points of reference, and so even though he had
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  Speaker 1: a map and he had a compass, he had no
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  Speaker 1: way to orient himself. So he had no idea what
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  Speaker 1: direction to go. Anybody that competed in this race really
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  Speaker 1: needed to be self sufficient, and so prss Ferry had
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  Speaker 1: a knife, he had plenty of dehydrated food, he had
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  Speaker 1: a sleeping bag, but he had very little water. He
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  Speaker 1: had about a half bottle of water because at each
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  Speaker 1: of the checkpoints during the day, the race officials would
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  Speaker 1: give you all of this water, and the idea was
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  Speaker 1: you would drink it all by the time you got
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  Speaker 1: to your next checkpoint, and he had not made it
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  Speaker 1: to the next checkpoint and so was very low on water.
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  Speaker 1: As he's looking around realizing this is a really bad situation,
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  Speaker 1: he thinks to himself, you know other runners must have
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  Speaker 1: had this same thing happened to them. They probably had
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  Speaker 1: to hunker down yesterday during the sandstorm, and they're just
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  Speaker 1: waking up now they're looking around. I'm bound to find someone.
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  Speaker 1: We'll link up, and we will get to the end
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  Speaker 1: of this race, and we'll be just fine. And so
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  Speaker 1: he runs to the top of a sand dune and
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  Speaker 1: looks around, expecting to see someone, and he doesn't. There's
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  Speaker 1: no one in all directions. It's just completely barren desert.
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  Speaker 1: And so he leaves that sand dune, goes up another
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  Speaker 1: one and does the same thing. He's looking around and
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  Speaker 1: there's nobody there. And over the course of several hours,
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  Speaker 1: he was just running to the peaks of these different
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  Speaker 1: sand dunes, expecting to see someone, not seeing anyone, becoming
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  Speaker 1: more panicked and expending more energy. And finally, by the
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  Speaker 1: late afternoon, when he's sweating profusely and the sun is
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  Speaker 1: bearing down on him and he still hasn't seen anyone,
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  Speaker 1: he realizes he's gonna die if he keeps doing this,
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  Speaker 1: and he needs to be smart about this, and so
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  Speaker 1: at this point he went into survival mode, and he
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  Speaker 1: decided that the only times he's gonna move are going
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  Speaker 1: to be at night and in the early morning hours,
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  Speaker 1: because those are the times when the sun is not
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  Speaker 1: up and it's still pretty cool and he can conserve
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  Speaker 1: energy that way. He also began peeing into bottles and
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  Speaker 1: began conserving his urine to drink later when he did
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  Speaker 1: run out of water, and so over the next two
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  Speaker 1: days he conserved his energy. But he was just kind
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  Speaker 1: of drifting through the desert, and he wasn't really getting anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't know if he was making progress because he
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to go too. He wasn't seeing anyone, and
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  Speaker 1: he was starting to realize the situation is getting worse
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  Speaker 1: and worse by the minute. And then, in an incredible
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  Speaker 1: stroke of luck, he comes across this Muslim shrine in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere that Bedouins would use as they
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  Speaker 1: traveled across the desert. Then he ran inside, hoping that
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  Speaker 1: there'd be a person in there, and there was a
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  Speaker 1: person in there, but they were dead inside of a coffin.
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  Speaker 1: But he was happy that he now had shelter over
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  Speaker 1: his head, and this felt like progress. He began taking
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  Speaker 1: stock of his new surroundings, and when he was inside
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  Speaker 1: the shrine, looking up into the ceiling, he saw it
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  Speaker 1: was lined with hundreds of bats, and at this point
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  Speaker 1: he's really hungry. He's really thirsty, and so he climbed
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  Speaker 1: up into the raptors and began grabbing handfuls of bats
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  Speaker 1: and drinking their blood. After drinking the blood of twenty bats,
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  Speaker 1: he used some of the wood that was inside of
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  Speaker 1: the shrine and he built a fire outside, and that
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  Speaker 1: would be his way to signal planes and helicopters going
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  Speaker 1: overhead that he assumed would be out looking for him.
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  Speaker 1: And so he sets the fire and he comes back
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  Speaker 1: inside expecting, you know, over the next couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: someone's bound to find him, but nobody does. And four
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  Speaker 1: days go by and three separate times a plane or
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  Speaker 1: helicopter flew directly over him. He's got his fire going,
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  Speaker 1: he's out there flagging him down, but nobody saw him.
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  Speaker 1: And so at the end of those four days, he's
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  Speaker 1: now been out in the desert, roaming around for nearly
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  Speaker 1: a week, and he's starting to realize that this is
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  Speaker 1: the end. He's not going to survive this. No one
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  Speaker 1: knows where he is, no one's seen him so far,
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  Speaker 1: He's running out of supplies. This is it, and so
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  Speaker 1: knowing he was staring down a long, painful death, either
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  Speaker 1: by dehydration or starvation. He decided he was going to
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  Speaker 1: expedite it, and he would say later that he did
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  Speaker 1: not feel sad about this, that just was a logical
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  Speaker 1: choice he was making. He figured this way, if he
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  Speaker 1: died inside of the shrine, the shrine was more likely
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  Speaker 1: to be found than if he had died somewhere out
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  Speaker 1: in the desert where sand would cover him up. And
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  Speaker 1: so he said, it was more likely people would find
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  Speaker 1: the shrine and therefore find him, and so there'd be
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  Speaker 1: closure for his family. And so Prosperry took a piece
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  Speaker 1: of charcoal from the fire, wrote a message to his wife,
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  Speaker 1: and then cut his wrists and laid down, expecting never
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  Speaker 1: to wake up again. But the next morning he woke
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  Speaker 1: up and he had barely bled because his blood was
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  Speaker 1: too thick. He literally could not bleed to death. He
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  Speaker 1: took this as a sign that he was supposed to live,
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  Speaker 1: and he suddenly felt motivated to survive. He decided to
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  Speaker 1: leave the shrine and follow the advice that one of
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  Speaker 1: the race organizers had given all of them at the start,
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  Speaker 1: which was, if you get lost, follow the clouds, you
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  Speaker 1: can see just beyond the horizon at dawn. There you
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  Speaker 1: will find civilization. So Prospery hopped up and began heading
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  Speaker 1: towards what he believed were those clouds. He walked for
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  Speaker 1: days in the desert, grabbing snakes and lizards off the
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  Speaker 1: ground and eating them raw. He said, his inner caveman
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  Speaker 1: came out like his primal desire to live, and he
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  Speaker 1: had no problems eating the things he was eating. Pros
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  Speaker 1: Ferry grew so dehydrated he couldn't even urinate anymore. So
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  Speaker 1: he began drinking the liquid inside of succulents that grew
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  Speaker 1: inside of dried up river beds, and he also began
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  Speaker 1: sucking out moisture in his wet wipes that were in
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  Speaker 1: his backpack. On the ninth day, Prosperi saw a little
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  Speaker 1: shepherd girl off in the distance, and she saw him,
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  Speaker 1: and she was scared of him, and she turned and
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  Speaker 1: ran away. And at first Prosperi is devastated because he
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  Speaker 1: has no strength to chase after her. But she had
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  Speaker 1: actually gone down to her tribe and told them about
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  Speaker 1: this strange man wandering the desert, and they came running
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  Speaker 1: up over the dunes and they brought him in and
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  Speaker 1: they gave him food and drink, and they sent someone
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  Speaker 1: to get police. After police picked him up and brought
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  Speaker 1: him back to their headquarters, he discovered he had walked
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  Speaker 1: over one hundred and eighty one miles from where he
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  Speaker 1: had gotten lost on the course, all the way to Algeria.
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  Speaker 1: His family and race organizers had gone out looking for
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  Speaker 1: him after he went missing, but all they ever found
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  Speaker 1: was his shoelace, and so they assumed he was dead.
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  Speaker 1: It would take him two years to fully recover from
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  Speaker 1: this ordeal, but after he did, he went on to
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  Speaker 1: run eight more Desert races. In twenty twelve, thirty five
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  Speaker 1: year old Jose Alvarenga was an extremely experienced fisherman, having
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  Speaker 1: spent years and years commercially fishing. In November of that year,
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  Speaker 1: Jose volunteered to do a thirty hour deep sea fishing
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  Speaker 1: shift for his company off the coast of his hometown
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  Speaker 1: in Mexico. He hoped he'd be able to catch some sharks,
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  Speaker 1: marlins and sailfish, three of the more lucrative fish you
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  Speaker 1: can catch. Unfortunately, the guy Jose usually went deep sea
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  Speaker 1: fishing with was not able to go at the last minute,
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  Speaker 1: but Jose still really wanted to go out and do
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  Speaker 1: the shift, and so he took the only other fishermen
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  Speaker 1: in their company that was willing to go or that
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  Speaker 1: could go, and it was a twenty three year old,
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  Speaker 1: extremely inexperienced, brand new fisherman named Ezekiel Cordoba. And while
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  Speaker 1: Jose knew he was not going to be a huge
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  Speaker 1: asset out on the seas, he figured, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a short trip and we're not that far off from shore,
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  Speaker 1: so you know what, he's fine, I'll take him. On
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  Speaker 1: November seventeenth, the pair set out on their twenty four
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  Speaker 1: foot fiberglass skiff with a small motor. On board were
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  Speaker 1: various fishing tools, a radio, and a large ice box
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  Speaker 1: to hold all the fish they were going to catch.
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  Speaker 1: Once they reached the area they were going to be fish,
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  Speaker 1: their trip immediately started paying off, and within just a
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  Speaker 1: couple of hours they had already almost completely overloaded the
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  Speaker 1: ice box. Their luck was so good that when they
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  Speaker 1: saw a storm coming in, they decided to wait and
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  Speaker 1: continue to catch as many fish as they possibly could
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  Speaker 1: before heading in at the very last minute, but the
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  Speaker 1: storm that was rolling in was like the storm of
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  Speaker 1: the century and by the time they did turn around
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  Speaker 1: to head into shore, it was too late. They got
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  Speaker 1: caught up in this wicked storm where the rain was
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  Speaker 1: so intense they literally could not see too shore. They
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  Speaker 1: tried to use their compass and other instruments to navigate
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  Speaker 1: to shore, but between the winds and the waves, and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that their boat was so heavy from the
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  Speaker 1: nearly thousand pounds of fish they had caught, they were
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  Speaker 1: just really unable to get anywhere near shore. When the
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  Speaker 1: storm just continued to rage and they were just kind
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  Speaker 1: of floundering in the water, they decided they needed to
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  Speaker 1: dump their catch, so they dumped all one thousand plus
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  Speaker 1: pounds of fish back into the water. But even then
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  Speaker 1: with a more agile boat, the storm was so so
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  Speaker 1: they just could not navigate effectively, and so Jose turned
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  Speaker 1: off the engine and told Ezekiel that their best chance
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  Speaker 1: here was to just waded out and once it was
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  Speaker 1: done they would head back into shore. But that storm
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  Speaker 1: continued to rage for five days. The torrential rain never stopped,
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  Speaker 1: the waves were huge, the winds were awful, and before
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  Speaker 1: long they were getting pulled out to sea and had
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  Speaker 1: no idea where they were now. They had only planned
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  Speaker 1: to be out for thirty hours, so they did not
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  Speaker 1: have much in the way of supplies, and so after
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  Speaker 1: a few days they had run out of food and
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  Speaker 1: they had run out of water, but luckily, because it
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  Speaker 1: was raining so much, they were able to drink the
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  Speaker 1: rain water. But the real immediate problem they were facing
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  Speaker 1: is over the course of those five days, the storm
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  Speaker 1: was just battering their boat, and by the time the
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  Speaker 1: storm cleared, their boat was ruined. Their motor had been
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  Speaker 1: torn off and was just gone, their electronics were busted,
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  Speaker 1: and all of their fishing gear was either damaged or gone.
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  Speaker 1: There was enough charge in the radio for Jose to
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  Speaker 1: call back to his boss on the mainland and send
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  Speaker 1: a MAYDA message, but the radio died for they got
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  Speaker 1: to return message, so they weren't able to confirm if
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  Speaker 1: anybody on land was going to come looking for them.
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  Speaker 1: Left with minimal supplies, no radio, no motor, Jose and
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  Speaker 1: Ezekiel just had to hope somebody on the mainland heard
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  Speaker 1: their message, and they slowly began to adjust to life
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  Speaker 1: at sea. Jose was able to leap into the water
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  Speaker 1: and catch turtles, fish, seabirds and jellyfish with his bare hands,
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  Speaker 1: and so that's what they ate, and then the two
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  Speaker 1: of them would try to catch rain water whenever they could,
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  Speaker 1: but the majority of the time they had to drink
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  Speaker 1: their own urine and turtle blood. Despite their initial optimism
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  Speaker 1: that their boss had probably heard their Mayday message and
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  Speaker 1: would be sending people out to get them, as days
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  Speaker 1: turned into weeks and weeks turned into months, they realized
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  Speaker 1: that probably no one was coming to find them. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Their only hope was a plane spotted them flying overhead,
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  Speaker 1: or perhaps they could drift into a shipping lane and
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  Speaker 1: a boat could spot them. But without any way of
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  Speaker 1: navigating their boat, they really were just leaving it up
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  Speaker 1: to luck. Despite their dire situation, Jose stayed really positive
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  Speaker 1: and he focused on cat food and catching water, and
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  Speaker 1: he tracked the time really diligently by tracking the phases
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  Speaker 1: of the moon. Ezekiel, however, just did not have a
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  Speaker 1: significant role on the boat because he just wasn't skilled enough,
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  Speaker 1: and so he found himself sitting in the boat most
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  Speaker 1: of the time doing a whole lot of nothing, and
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  Speaker 1: he fell into a deep depression. He was not accustomed
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  Speaker 1: to being out on the water the way Jose was.
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  Speaker 1: Jose had been raised on the water. He practically only
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  Speaker 1: ate seafood, and a lot of it he ate raw,
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  Speaker 1: So in a way, Jose was kind of at home,
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  Speaker 1: Ezekiel was not. And then by the fourth month, Ezekiel
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  Speaker 1: just could no longer stomach the food they were eating.
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  Speaker 1: He would just get sick every single time, and so
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  Speaker 1: he just kind of gave up and he stopped eating.
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  Speaker 1: And even though Jose urged him to eat and would
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  Speaker 1: get him food, he didn't eat it, and eventually he
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  Speaker 1: starved to death. Even though Ezekiel was not a huge
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  Speaker 1: asset in terms of helping them survive, he did provide
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  Speaker 1: Jose an enormous amount of comfort. It was like you
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  Speaker 1: had your partner in crime here. And then once he died,
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  Speaker 1: Jose was alone for the first time in nearly half
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  Speaker 1: a year, and he fell into a very dark depression.
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  Speaker 1: And for six days he did not touch Ezekiel's body.
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  Speaker 1: He just sat there and stared at him and even
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  Speaker 1: contemplated taking his own life. But on the seventh day,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't know what it was, but he had the
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  Speaker 1: sudden urge to want to survive, and so he gave
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  Speaker 1: Ezekiel a kind of makeshift funeral. He said a few
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  Speaker 1: words and then disposed of his body in the ocean.
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  Speaker 1: And then after that, Jose became laser focused on just
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  Speaker 1: surviving and survived. He would for another nine months all
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  Speaker 1: by himself down the middle of the ocean, just floating around,
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  Speaker 1: drinking turtle's blood and drinking his own peg. But after
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  Speaker 1: those nine months he would finally see the thing he
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  Speaker 1: had been dreaming about. Land. He had managed to drift
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  Speaker 1: all the way to the Marshall Islands, so he leapt
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  Speaker 1: out of his boat. He swammed ashore and there was
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  Speaker 1: a hut right on the beach. He knocked on the
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  Speaker 1: hut and a couple came to the door, and they
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  Speaker 1: were totally shocked to see this guy. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't look too good and they couldn't even believe his story.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't believe that he had survived for so long
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  Speaker 1: in the water. But they quickly brought him inside. They
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  Speaker 1: gave him some food and drink, and they contacted authorities
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  Speaker 1: and he was saved. His parents and young daughter when
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  Speaker 1: they found out he was alive, they were overjoyed. They,
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  Speaker 1: along with everybody else, believed he had perished. They had
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  Speaker 1: sent out a search party for them, and they had
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: found pieces of their boat that had broken off in
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: the storm, and so they assumed, you know, they must
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: have sank. Then, in a strange turn of events, shortly
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: after he got home, people began accusing him of lying
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: about what happened. People said he looked too good to
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: have been out on the open ocean for fourteen months.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: He should have been emaciated, and at the very least
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: he should have had scurvy. But doctors would say he
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: ate so many turtles and seabirds that he was pretty
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: well fed, and turtles and seabirds contain a high level
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: of vitamin C that would have protected him from scurvy.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Other Skeptics said it would have been impossible for his
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: skiff to float the six thousand miles to the Marshall Islands,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: where he ultimately found land, but then a study done
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: at the University of Hawaii confirmed there was a current
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: that would have pulled him from the coast of Mexico
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: straight into the Marshall Islands. And then lastly, Ezekiel Cordoba's
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: family accused Jose of killing Ezekiel and eating his body
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: for sustenance. That's the only way he was able to survive,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: but Ezekiel roundly rejected that and took multiple light detector
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: tests that proved he did not do that. Today, Jose
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: lives in a small town in Al Salvador, completely surrounded
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  Speaker 1: by land, and he says he doesn't go anywhere near
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: the water. In nineteen seventy one, Julianne Keepka was a
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: bright eyed German teenager who had just graduated high school.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: On Christmas Eve of nineteen seventy one, she and her
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: mother were at the airport in Lima, Peru, waiting for
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: a flight to Pakopa to visit her father, who was
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: a zoologist working in the Amazon. She and her mother
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: and everybody else waiting for this flight were really annoyed
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: because the flight was seven hours late due to bad weather.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Finally it arrived and Julianne, her mother, and everybody else
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: who had been waiting boarded lance the flight five zero eight,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: and immediately after takeoff, they started hitting some pretty bad
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: turbulence because of the bad weather. But Julianne really liked flying,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: so she didn't mind. Her mother, on the other hand,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: was white knuckling the armrests. But after ten minutes or so,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: as they were getting nearer to cruising, altitude, the turbulence
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: was not getting any better. In fact, it was getting
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: much worse, and Julianne was starting to get worried herself.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: And then when the plane started shaking so violently that
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: all of the overhead bins opened up and luggage and
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: wrapped presents and Christmas cakes started pouring out, Julianne now
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: began white knuckling the arm rest. As she's sitting there,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: she looks out the window and she sees all this
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: lightning right outside their window, and it was clear they
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: were literally flying through a lightning storm. And so Julianne
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: and her mother are just looking at each other, unable
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: to speak because they're so scared, and they're listening to
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: the other passengers screaming and yelling, and everyone's starting to panic.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: And then the plane starts really shaking up and down,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: like it's being lifted fifty feet and dropping fifty feet
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: over and over. And then all of a sudden, there's
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: this bright flash inside of the cabin, and then the
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: lights go out, and then they look out the left
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: side and they see smoke and flames coming out of
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: the engine that sits on the wing. And then the
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: plane felt like it was just falling from the sky
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: before it dipped into an aggressive nose dive and just
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: started bombing straight down toward the ground. It turned out
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: that big flash in the cabin was lightning striking the engine.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Julianne would say, despite this unbelievable chaos, the worst moment imaginable,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: her mother grabbed her by the hand and said, this
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: is it. It's all over. And that was the last
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: thing her mother ever said to her. After that, all
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Julianne can remember is the sound of other passengers screaming
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: and crying, and the awful grinding sounds that the engines
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: were making. And as she's listening to these horrible sounds,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: getting ready to die, all of a sudden, the noise
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: just stops and she's outside of the plane. She's still
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: strapped into her seat, but now she's in freefall, away
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: from the plane, and she remembers thinking how unbelievably lonely
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: she was, and then she looked down and she saw
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: the canopy of the jungle fast approaching, and she knew
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: she was about to die, and then she passed out.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: She remembers nothing of the actual impact, but she would
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: later find out the plane broke up two miles up,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: so she was in free fall for two miles in
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: that seat before hitting the ground. She woke up looking
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: upwards towards the jungle canopy, and the first thing she
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: said out loud was I survived. And she's looking around
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: and she yells for her mother, but there's no one
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: around her. No one yells back, and that's when she realizes,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I'm all alone, and probably everybody, including my mother, is dead.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: She had somehow managed to not only survive, but only
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: have a broken collarbone and some deep cuts in her leg.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: She could hear planes overhead that were most likely looking
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: for the crash site and potentially survivors, but she couldn't
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: see them because the canopy was so thick, so they
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: couldn't see her. She was wearing a very short, sleeveless
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: mini dress and flip flops, but in fact she had
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: lost one of her flip flops, but elected to keep
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: the other one on because she had lost her glasses
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: in the crash and she was incredibly nearsighted, and so
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: she would use this one flip flop to test the
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: ground ahead of her before committing with her bare foot.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Before the crash, she had spent a year and a
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: half at her parents' research station out in the Amazon,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: and in that time she had picked up very valuable
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: survival skills for being in the rainforest. So the first
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: thing she did was stand up and go looking for
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: a stream, because her father had told her wherever there's
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: a stream, that stream will oftentimes lead to civilization, and
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: so she began walking in. Sure enough, she found a stream,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: and instead of just walking next to the stream, she
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: got in it and began walking directly in the middle
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: of the stream, because her parents had told her that
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: you're less likely to get attacked by a predator if
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: you're standing in the water versus standing on land. She
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: only walked a little ways before she came across the
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: crash site. There was no bodies, it was just debris,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: and all she could find that was useful was a
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: small bag of candy. So she took the bag of
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: candy and continued walking down the stream. And for several
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: days she trudged along, and she would say during the
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: day it was incredibly hot and miserable, and at night
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: it was very cold, and since she only had this
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: small dress on, it was particularly miserable. But she said
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the scariest part of the whole ordeal was at night,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: when you're trying to sleep it's totally pitch black and
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: you're in the middle of the Amazon, and there's predators
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: all around you, she said. It was horrifying. On the
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: fourth day of being in the jungle, as she walked
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: down the stream, she heard the sound of a landing
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: king vulture, a sound that she recognized from her time
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: spent at her parents' Amazon reserve, and the sound of
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: this vulture was just around the corner, so she couldn't
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: see it, but she knew these huge vultures only showed
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: up if there's a ton of dead meat, and so
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: she knew as then as she rounded that corner, she
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: was going to come face to face with the bodies
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: from the crash, potentially even her mother, but she kept
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: moving forward. She turned the corner, and sure enough, there
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: were bodies. The vulture took off, and what she was
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: left looking at was a bench with three passengers on
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: it still buckled in and all three of their heads
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: had been rammed underneath the earth. They had clearly landed
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: head first. Immediately, she had an intense sense of panic
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: because she had never seen a dead body before, and
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: she thought one of them was her mother. But when
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: she went over to examine this particular corpse, she saw
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: her toenails were painted pink, and her mother never painted
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: her toenails, and so she had this intense sense of
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: relief that it wasn't her mother, but at the same
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: time felt very ashamed of that thought. There was nothing
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: on the three bodies or near them that could help
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: her survive, and so she said her goodbyes and she
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: continued walking down the stream. By the tenth day of
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: this ordeal, she could barely stand straight because of a
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: broken collarbone and the pain in her leg, and so
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: she began drifting down the river in one of the
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: deeper sections. And then she thought she was hallucinating when
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: she saw this big boat docked up against the side
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: of the river, But when she went up to it
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: and touched it, it was real. She went up on shore,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: she looked inside. There was no one in the boat,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: but it looked like a boat that was used, and
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: there was a path that led back into the jungle,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and so she followed the path and it led to
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: this hut, and no one was in there, but outside
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: was a jug of gasoline and she had this wound
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: in her arm that was full of maggots, and she
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: remembered her father using gasoline to get maggots out of
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: a wound in their dog, and so she took the
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: gasoline and dumped it in her arm, and she said
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: it was excruciatingly painful, but she was able to pull
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: out thirty maggots and felt very proud of that accomplishment.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: After that, she fell asleep inside of the hut and
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: just hoped that whoever lived here eventually showed up, and
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: sure enough, the next day she woke up and she
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: heard two men talking outside that were walking towards her,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: and she said the sound of their voice was like
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the sound of an angel. And when the two men
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: came up the path and saw her, they were obviously
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: very shocked, and they initially thought she was like this
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: water goddess from a local legend that involved a half
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: mermaid half woman that was light skinned. And she would
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: tell them in Spanish that she's not a water goddess,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: that in fact, she's a girl and she had just
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: survived a plane crash and she really needed their help.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: It was getting late that day, so they couldn't bring
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: her out of the jungle right away, so they helped
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: treat her wounds, They gave her some food and water,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: and the next day they brought her back to civilization.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: The day after her rescue, she was reunited with her father,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and apparently he was so overcome with emotion because he
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: believed she was dead that for several hours he just
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: couldn't speak. Julianne was the sole survivor of the ninety
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: one people who boarded lance to flight five zero eight.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Her mother actually survived the crash, but then died several
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: days later because she couldn't move. This is something that
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: haunts Julianne and her family because they think about how
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: horrible those last few moments for her mother wanted to.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Julianne ultimately recovered from all of her physical injuries, but
• 24:03
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• 24:06
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