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Luckiest People Who Survived the Impossible – Part 10 · Be Amazed

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[SPEAKER_00]: From being attacked by a horde of killer bees to falling into an active volcano, these are even more of the luckiest people who survived the impossible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On March 28, 2024, Oregon man Shane Riemche popped out to visit the local convenience store.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Little did he know he was inches away from being very inconvenienced.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just as Shane entered the store he noticed something hurtling towards him, a massive saw blade.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In a scene that could be ripped straight out of final destination, Shane avoided certain doom by literal seconds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As captured on the store's surveillance footage, the four-foot concrete saw tour across the road and lodged itself in the wall right next to the door.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The impact was so powerful that it shook the entire building.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Pan, imagine what would have happened to Shane if he'd stopped a tie as sure something doesn't bear thinking about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It seems that a loose bolt from some nearby construction works was responsible for this scary accident, though there's no word on weather consequences were faced.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As for Shane, he suffered massive anxiety after the incident, and who could blame him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A carpenter by trade, he's founded incredibly difficult to spend time around saws, which makes working tough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To help him out with counseling bills, his daughter at Trinity set up a go-fun me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you've got any change to spare, I'm sure old Shane would appreciate it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As beautiful as Canada's Niagara Falls are, they're also very deadly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Every year 20 to 30 people plunge to their doom, which makes the story of Roger Woodward even more incredible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Back in 1960, 40-year-old James Honeycutt, a family friend, took then seven-year-old Roger on a boat ride with his 17-year-old sister Dianne on the Upper Niagara River.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Honeycutt had often taken the kids outboating, so the trip was nothing out of the ordinary.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Until around a mile from the falls, the boat's motormail function.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Frantically, Honeycutt tried to manually row the trio to the shore, but the strong current was taking them straight towards the falls.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He ordered the kids to put their life jackets on, but was so busy rowing he couldn't put his own on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then, as they approach the edge, the rough waters slammed into the boat and capsized it, plunging all three of its passengers into the tumultuous current.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dianne was separated from the others, but thankfully was hauled up from the very edge by two tourists who'd happened to be nearby.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What are the chances?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Roger and Honeycutt weren't so lucky.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They desperately clung to each other, but the raging waters tore them apart just before the precipice of the horseshoe falls.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The largest of the three falls making up the Niagara with a stomach-churning vertical plunge of 188 feet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's taller than the leaning tower of Pisa.
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[SPEAKER_00]: unable to do anything, they were both sent straight over the edge, plummeting down into oblivion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Except, somehow, Roger survived.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A seven-year-old boy wearing only a bathing suit and a lifejacket survived a 188 feet drop with just a mild concussion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because of his lifejacket, when Roger had plunged into the water at the base of the falls, he'd quickly rose back to the surface again,
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[SPEAKER_00]: As for James Honeycutt, he'd sacrificed his jacket to try and save the kids and ended up sacrificing his life for them too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If there's one person on a construction site you should feel safe around, it's the safety guy, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that definitely wasn't the case in this next tale.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You see, Redditor G-Money 88's pal was a contractor working on a construction site.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One day he was holding on to a ladder while the safety inspector was climbing down it, nail gun and hand.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can tell where this is going?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Either safety man drop the nail gun or he slipped and accidentally pressed it against our contractors head on the way down, cause a two inch nail ended up buried in his skull.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sheesh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Incredibly, though, not only did G-Money 88's friend live, but he also got away without any brain damage.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How the heck is that possible?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, for starters, a nail is small and precise, sure two inches sounds gnarly, but the nail's small point and width means that it'd go through the skull without causing extensive fractures.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This also means only a tiny area of the brain would actually be pierced, plus it wouldn't even be that painful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The skull has some pain receptors, sure, but the brain has absolutely none.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All that said, this guy still got away seriously lucky.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The nail miraculously avoided impacting the most critical areas of the brain and he got to carry on with his life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As for the safety guy, well, I imagine his consequences weren't so minimal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now back to some more incredible tales of survival.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there are some people that just shouldn't be behind a wheel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm hardly a pro, but at least I've never been in a crash like the one you're about to hear about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This crazy story comes from Tabasco, Mexico, in 2023.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Supposedly, while driving down the front row, Vila hermosa motorway, a truck slammed into the orange car and left it wedged underneath a different one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Unlookers naturally panicked and rushed to the rescue, but it was super unlikely for anybody to survive getting pancake like they did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Surprisingly, the driver emerged from the wreck completely unscathed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It seems that the vehicle absorbed the impact in just the right way, forming a protective shell around the terrified man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If it hadn't crumpled into that specific shape, I wouldn't be talking about him in this episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I bet this miraculous escape gave the driver a newfound appreciation for life, though next time I reckon he might want to work.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Beezer friends, we should protect them as much as possible, but when it comes to killer bees, we're the ones that need protection.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're a far more aggressive hybrid species of Western honeybeek capable of causing you some serious trouble.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In 2023, 81-year-old Oklahoma man Carl Amos had an unfortunate run-in with these vicious villains.
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[SPEAKER_00]: See, Amos was out front, mowing his lawn with a riding mower when he was attacked by a couple of bees.
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[SPEAKER_00]: mildly annoyed he went to get some bug spray, but these weren't any old bees.
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[SPEAKER_00]: By the time he reached it, so many of the angry, stinging insects had appeared that he was absolutely covered in them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: panicking, Amis desperately tried to swat at the killer bees and run away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But as he did so, he tripped and fell hard on the ground breaking his hip.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Unable to move and an immeasurable pain, he was forced to lie there as more and more of them crawled all over him, stinging every part of his body, including his face.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It got so bad Carl couldn't even see through the mass of furry bodies and gulping him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thankfully, some construction workers were returning from their lunch break nearby and spotted the horrifying scene.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They rushed over and called emergency services who quickly arrived with hoses and fired water at the bees, dispersing them, I can't even imagine poor amuses relieved.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Despite the brutal nature of the attack, the man's advanced age and the added complication of a broken hip, Carl is predicted to make a full recovery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All thanks to the friendly construction workers who found him and the emergency services who came as fast as they could, who knows what would have happened otherwise.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Look, I only went skiing once and after the disaster that ensued, I'll never do it again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I won't elaborate, it can be super dangerous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Francis Zuber was skiing and Washington's Mount Baker ski area in 2023 when he saw something that made his heart skip a beat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This was Ian Steeger.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He'd been snowboarding just ahead of Francis when disaster had struck.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He'd slid over a loose bit of snow and collapsed through it, ending up stuck upside down, buried.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Basically, in snowy areas the ground directly underneath the tree gets less snow due to the cover.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This creates a tree well, an area of loose snow that can be deadly to people who fall in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not only are you trapped, the snow around you blocks air from reaching your lungs, setting you on a deadly timer that most people don't outlast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, Ian's close friend had passed away and that exact scenario just a few months prior.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As he lay under the snow completely unable to move and with oxygen swiftly depleting, Ian thought of his departed pal, his fiance, and his impending demise.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He knew he had around 15 minutes until he bit the bullet and he'd been there for five already.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But by sheer chance Francis had spotted his snowboard sticking up out of the snow, and he wasn't going to let that happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After a whole lot of digging Ian was finally freed and a lifelong friendship was formed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As far as Ian's concern, beers are on him for the rest of their lives, seems fair to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't need to tell you guys active volcanoes aren't exactly safe places.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even so, camera crews sometimes need to head to them for shoots.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Back in 1992, cameraman Michael Benson and Chris Duddy were shooting aerial footage of Keloia volcano in Hawaii for the thriller movie's sliver.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But things took a dramatic turn for the worse when the helicopter lost power and crashed into the volcano crater, narrowly avoiding a pool of molten lava.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Good News
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[SPEAKER_00]: both cameraman and the pilot were alive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The bad news, they were trapped inside the crater.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With toxic fumes thick in the air and no food or water to speak of, Benson and Dutty decided to try their luck and scale the steep rocky incline to escape.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The pilot stayed where he was, which turned out to be the better move.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A few hours later, a rescue copter located him and flew him to safety, but the two cameraman were nowhere to be found.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And due to poor weather, further rescue attempts were scuppered.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Bit by bit, Duddy was able to claw his way out of the crater by the end of the day, but Benson wasn't so lucky.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He'd climbed to just 60 feet below the crater's rim, but gotten stuck
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[SPEAKER_00]: Going back down wasn't an option and climbing further up was impossible, so the exhausted cameraman had no choice but to sit tight and wait it out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And waited out he did for an entire day until a break in the weather finally allowed rescuers to find Benson and lower a net down from their chopper to scoop him up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And although he suffered from inflamed lungs, chemical pneumonia and dehydration, he survived.
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[SPEAKER_00]: amazing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the worst part?
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[SPEAKER_00]: All those volcano scenes the crew had risked their lives for were ultimately scrapped from the final cut of sliver.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, pigeons are annoying, but did you know that they can also be deadly?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just ask Britmath Eubrily.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In April of 2011, Breely was out for a leisurely motorcycle ride after spending some time with a friend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The calm was suddenly and violently ruptured when a pigeon rocketed towards him out of nowhere.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The feathered foe collided with Breely's face and was going so fast it shattered the visor of his helmet and his glasses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The insane force of the blow instantly knocked Breely out cold, but his foot was still on the gas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh-oh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The bike quickly picked up speed and after reaching a crazy 140 miles an hour, the unconscious man collided with a tree and was sent flying through the air.
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[SPEAKER_00]: safe to say the landing wasn't pleasant.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the aftermath of the Ordeal, our unfortunate hero was left with a laundry list of injuries, including skull fractures, brain bleeding, and broken ribs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He even needed to learn how to walk again after the devastation caused to his body.
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[SPEAKER_00]: but incredibly he lived to tell the tale.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, imagine having pigeon listed as your cause of death.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thankfully, Breley didn't have to suffer that humiliation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As we've established, I'm a coward, the most extreme that my sports get is going bowling with mittens on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So why anybody would choose to try bungee jumping is beyond me?
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[SPEAKER_00]: take the story of Aaron Langworthy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The then 22-year-old Australian took a trip to Zambia in 2014 in search of adventure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So when she heard of the incredible experience that was bungee jumping over the Zambazy River at Victoria Falls, she jumped at the chance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Never mind that she'd seen crocodiles in the waters there that morning, as far as she was concerned if 50,000 people did the
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's how she found herself standing precariously on the edge of a bridge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So Aaron steadied her nerves and leapt, but the initial adrenaline rush was interrupted by a sudden jolt across her chest, the bungee cord had snapped.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She haphazardly freefell a staggering 131 feet before finally colliding with the river beneath.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Her lungs instantly filled with water as she plunged under the surface and was swept down river by the current, her legs still tied together.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To make matters even worse, what remained of the cord got snagged between some rocks, pinning her underwater.
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[SPEAKER_00]: her vision started to fade, surely this was the end, not yet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With an incredible feat of strength, Aaron dived down and managed to tear the cord free surfacing with a gas, but then she was swept even further downstream.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Eventually, she was able to lodge her arm between a couple of rocks at the edge of the river, where she stayed, helpless, for an agonizing 40 minutes at the mercy of the rushing water.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then, at long last, a guy from the bungee company found her and managed to pull her out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Defying all logic, she was alive, with the worst of her injuries being a partially collapsed long.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Bungie Company was profoundly apologetic as they should have been and Aaron got to go home to her mom, who she'd sent a postcard to the day before her jump.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It read, I'm doing a Bungie jump tomorrow, so I'll say goodbye, only joking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Fate sure has a weird sense of humor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Certain insane people think leaping from a plane at 10,000 feet is a good idea.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It isn't, and I won't be told otherwise.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But believe it or not, there are ways to make that scenario even more terrifying.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In November 2014, over in the land down under, Daredevil Sheldon McFarlane was teaching a course on skydiving.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He and his student Christopher Jones leapt from a plane as they'd done countless times before, but this time, something would go horribly wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sheldon's students started experiencing a seizure 9,000 feet in the air.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The poor guy was left completely unconscious and in total free fall.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sheldon knew he had to act fast or the situation would go from bad to worse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In a show of pure determination, he managed to reach Christopher and deploy his parachute.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Shortly afterwards, he regained consciousness and managed to use his prior training to successfully land unharmed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Phew.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I can imagine a worse scenario.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever tried skydiving?
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[SPEAKER_00]: If not, would you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me know in the comments if the platform allows it and I'll see how many wackos are out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In their efforts to explore the world, the British set out on a myriad of historical expeditions, some more successful than others.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Way back in 1819, British explorer John Franklin and a crew of 18 others intended to map the Northwest Passage, a sea lane above Canada.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With help from traders and local tribes, the plan was to travel to the Great Slave Lake, follow a previously chartered path alongside the Coppermine River, reach the sea, then turn east and explore Canada's unknown Arctic coast, it didn't exactly go to plan.
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[SPEAKER_00]: by 1821 they'd managed to chart 500 miles of coastline and were about to head for Ford Enterprise.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A camp they'd set up prior to wait out the long Canadian winter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, the weather took a turn for the worse and rough seas made it impossible to get there by boat as they'd planned.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Their only alternative was a long and arduous trek on foot through an area, aptly known as the Baron lands.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The journey was hell.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For months, the group tracked with starvation, dehydration, and frostbite constantly looming.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They got so hungry that they were reduced to eating like-ins off rocks that made them sick, and they even boiled their leather boots and ate those.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Cranky!
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[SPEAKER_00]: Though one member of the expedition decided that just wasn't good enough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After a string of disappearances and some inexplicably procured wolf meat, it became pretty clear he'd opted to chow down on people pie instead.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ugh, spoiler alert, after the others found out they didn't let him get away with it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the end, just 11 of the 22 men arrived at Fort Enterprise exhausted starving and desperate, but the Ordeal wasn't over, the camp which they'd expected to be full of dried meat was utterly devoid of supplies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In despair, the remaining crew huddled together and awaited the end, however, that end wouldn't come.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Miraculously, a party from a local tribe turned up with food and nursed them back to health.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The depleted group would arrive back home in 1822, and Franklin was heralded as a hero for the lengths he went to for survival.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's right, hero status for eating shoes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In February of 2020, Japanese Twitter user Osaka Puchiko uploaded a hair-raising video to Twitter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While driving on the Hanchen Expressway, he'd spotted something utterly horrifying.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It looked like a woman was clinging to the back of a truck speeding down the expressway.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Did she survive such a treacherous situation?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, okay, it's just a mannequin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The whole setup was designed to get some attention for the business that owns it, Santa M. Class Garden.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The vehicle is part of their shuttle service and boasts this creepy dummy on the back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeesh!
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, false alarm this time, but I assure you this next story is far from one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Underwater oil pipes can't just be left to operate by themselves, they need to be repaired and maintained, which means that somebody has to head down into the murky depths to perform the dangerous task.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Get ready for one of the most horrific stories I've ever known.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On February 25th, 2022, the Pariah Fuel Trading Company contracted a team of divers to perform maintenance on one of their oil pipelines off Ponte, Pierre, Trinidad, and Tobago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Kazim Ali Jr., use of Henry, Fizal Kurban, Rishi Nagacer, and Christopher Boudrum were selected to work on the pipe, and so, down they went.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was in a sort of U-shape and the crew had set up a pressurized airfield chamber over one end where they could work more easily in dry conditions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To perform the job, they first needed to remove two airtight plugs from the pipe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The first one went without trouble.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But when they removed the second, things took a horrifying turn.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The moment they removed the plug, water from the ocean rushed into the chamber, submerging them instantly and creating a chaotic vortex.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Before they even realized what was happening, they were sucked 1,312 feet down the oily shoot at breakneck speed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's more than the height of the Empire State Building.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The sheer terror and confusion is hard to imagine, but how did it happen?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Basically, the interior of the pipe was much lower pressure than the chamber outside, and both air and water naturally move from areas of high pressure to low pressure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, when they removed the plug, a pressure differentiation was created, that was so drastic it pulled water violently from the ocean into the chamber and down the pipe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The resulting current acted like a vacuum and forcibly sucked each of the divers down into the dark.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In a cruel twist of fate, the five men found themselves stranded in a cramped, pitch black tube filled with oil and water.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Injured confused and terrified they struggled to get their bearings.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Somehow, amazingly, they were alive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: By pure luck, they'd slid down and landed in an air pocket in the middle of the pipe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even so, the situation was dire, they'd lost their oxygen tanks, couldn't see anything and some of them had broken bones, but they stayed as calm as they could and Christopher came up with a plan.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To escape, they needed to go back the way they'd came where they knew the pipe was open.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If they went the wrong way, they'd be met with a dead end in certain doom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a 50-50 shot, but they had no other choice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Linking hands to ankles, they slowly make their way down one end of the pipe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Despite the situation, things seemed hopeful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was until Christopher made a horrifying discovery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The next area of pipe was completely submerged with water and oil.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The group would need to dive down for an unknown stretch to get past.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The risk was too great, and the fear too much.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Rishi Kazim and use of couldn't do it, and so Christopher and Faisal promised to bring back help and took the perilous plunge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On and on they went, just as they were about to run out of breath relief.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They hit another air pocket, gasping for breath the pair rested for a moment, and then even better news,
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[SPEAKER_00]: There was an oxygen tank lying against the pipe, but it wasn't over yet and they were exhausted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Fizzle had to face facts, he was too spent to continue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so Christopher took the tank and took the next plunge alone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That journey through darkness would have been nothing short of hellish, but he bravely soldiered on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Until he felt something in front of him, the pipe's bend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He turned it and swam upwards until he breached the surface, but above him was just... darkness.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This couldn't be how it ended.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Had he gone the wrong way?
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[SPEAKER_00]: He called for help and banged a nearby chain in a desperate attempt to get someone's attention.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And incredibly, he was heard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The pipe above him opened and light flooded in as rescue divers began helping Christopher up and out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Against all odds, he'd made it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: His friends, however, weren't so lucky.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The pariah company refused to send any rescue divers down to retrieve the men, and they were left inside that claustrophobic tunnel for days until it became their grave.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Following the tragedy, an ongoing legal battle has ensued to discover who was responsible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We can only hope that at the end of all this, there's some semblance of justice and closure for everybody involved.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At the very least, I'm amazed and thankful that Christopher made it out okay, and that he gets to see his family again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This wants to you, Christopher, on that utterly harrowing note, I think that's more than enough stories for today, which did you find the most unbelievable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me know in the comments if the platform allows it, and I'll catch you in the next episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for listening!