We would never let something like this happen in the Midwest.
There are a lot fewer examples of someone being swept out to sea from the Midwest. Maybe Japan should learn some lessons.
Ya gotta watch out for those lakes tho
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead / When the skies of November turn gloomy
They outlawed riptides in Midwestern lakes back in the 1870s
Ask yes, the Cedar Point tragedy of 1869. 27 died, including a Habsburg and two Rockefellers. 42 others were missing and presumed dead. The Navy spent three months subduing the lake by beating it with oars. It was the fastest legislation passed since the DC Forest Incident in 1831
The Edmund Fitzgerald has entered the chat.
Kind of hard without oceans in the midwest
But at the same time though, we have the lakes!
Citation needed.
It’s amazing she lived and amazing she was found!
It’s chilling to think how much of a needle in a haystack you’d be if you were lost at sea or in an ocean. I’m guessing there is technically to help but it’s still scary as fuck.
37 hours? Damn!
She must’ve been exhausted.
I leave the ocean alone, and the ocean leaves me alone. So far, it’s been a fruitful arrangement.
Fool, the ocean is encroaching on the land as we speak. We must strike before it takes too much!
I have this exact same pact, but in Australia, so it is between me and the snake population.
Good god what an amazing rescue. Kudos to the teams that helped save her. I can’t imagine being out at sea for that long. I’d have lost hope. That woman probably has a new lease on life.
José Salvador Alvarenga held out for 14 months.
According to Alvarenga, Córdoba lost all hope around four months into the voyage after becoming sick from the raw food, and eventually died from starvation by refusing to eat. Alvarenga has said that he contemplated suicide for four days after Córdoba died, but his Christian faith prevented him from doing so. He related that Córdoba made him promise not to eat his corpse after he died, so he kept it on the boat. He sometimes spoke to the corpse and after six days, fearing he was going insane, he threw it overboard.
I’m pretty sure I would’ve gone insane
Wow, that’s quite the ordeal. He blew across nearly the entire Pacific!
She was traveling an average of 1.35 mph or 2.16 kph.
And very very tired and thirsty I would imagine.
The ocean is full of water, her fingies would be pruny though.
You… you know, right?
Are you trying to say the ocean isn’t made of water?
I’m trying to say your mum’s made of water.
and i can smell the fish 😝
Well, do we know which one it was?
Wow miracle
Despite what they might tell you, Coast Guards aren’t gods.
How did it take that long for the rescue crew to get out to look for her? What was her friend doing for all that time before reporting her? I’m so confused. 😵💫
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