We would never let something like this happen in the Midwest.
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
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
It’s amazing she lived and amazing she was found!
37 hours? Damn!
She must’ve been exhausted.
37 hours in among the waves and half of that under the sun while the other half is in darkness, probably awake all that time?
She must be both physically and mentally scarred for life.
I was thinking about how many hours it might take me to cry. And then I thought I’d prolly cry a few times. Also I have pretty severe thalassophobia so maybe I’d have a panic attack. Depends on if I could see shore or not.
But also this would never happen to me.
I leave the ocean alone, and the ocean leaves me alone. So far, it’s been a fruitful arrangement.
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
