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10 Stories About Survival
Researching 10 stories about survival
1. Juliane Koepcke was the only one of LANSA flight 508. In tropical forest after the plane struck by lightning. She fell to the nearby stream and she was rescued by loggers
2. Setting sail from the Canary Islands towards the Caribbean in a small boat, Steven’s boat go down in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and he was left adrift for 76 days. He eventually made landfall in the Bahamas.
3. Aron’s story was highly publicized in 2003 when he had to cut off his right arm in order to free himself from between a large rock and a rock wall. He had been hiking in Utah when the rock shifted and pinned his arm.
4. In 1766, Pierre Viaud was aboard a French merchant ship that wrecked in a storm off the coast of Florida.
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When Ernest Shackleton was on his way to cross Antarctica, his ship got stuck in the ice and with no outside help they remained stranded for 22 months. For the first year the crew lived inside the ship but after the ice destroyed it they moved out onto the ice. Ernest eventually made the decision to move boat 800 miles in a lifeboat to South Georgia island where there was a small whaling operation to survive.
8. In October 1982 Deborah and four others set out in a large boat from Maine to Florida. After high see off the coast of North Carolina destroyed the boat they were left adrift in shark filled waters. One of them swam off and was never seen again and another was eaten by sharks directly beneath the boat. Only Deborah and another crew member survived when they see 1 boat cross near there.
9. On May 13, 1945 a US military plane nicknamed the Gremlin Special crashed into a mountain in Dutch New Guinea. Three of the passengers survived only to find themselves surrounded by a tribe of known cannibals. Lucky for them the tribe mostly only ate enemy tribesman. The trio was eventually rescue .
10. In 1982 Yossi and three friends got lost in the Bolivian Amazon. The party broke into pairs and two were never seen again. Yossi and his friend built a boat to float down river but got separated in the rapids. His friend was rescued and Yossi was found 19 days later near the river

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