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Jon Kraus wrote:
Amen brother... I don't believe in coincidences any more nor am I a religious zealot... I just KNOW that I am being cared for... :-) So, who was caring for that 20 year-old who ditched in the lake? -- Peter ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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"Peter R." wrote in message ... Jon Kraus wrote: Amen brother... I don't believe in coincidences any more nor am I a religious zealot... I just KNOW that I am being cared for... :-) So, who was caring for that 20 year-old who ditched in the lake? Whoever it was, they musta been on a break! |
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Musta been his time I guess... Just because he died doesn't mean he
wasn't card for... Just my .02 Peter R. wrote: Jon Kraus wrote: Amen brother... I don't believe in coincidences any more nor am I a religious zealot... I just KNOW that I am being cared for... :-) So, who was caring for that 20 year-old who ditched in the lake? |
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In article , Jon Kraus wrote:
Musta been his time I guess... Just because he died doesn't mean he wasn't card for... Just my .02 The only person who ultimately directly cares for us when we are solo in an aircraft is ourselves. No one else. You are the captain of your own soul as well as your aircraft. You are the only person looking after yourself in that situation; remember that. If you expect some divine being to care for you, I think you're just looking for a grid reference. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 12:10:57 -0000, Dylan Smith
wrote in :: The only person who ultimately directly cares for us when we are solo in an aircraft is ourselves. No one else. You are the captain of your own soul as well as your aircraft. You are the only person looking after yourself in that situation; remember that. If you expect some divine being to care for you, I think you're just looking for a grid reference. I couldn't agree more. Here are the words of a survivor of a seven hour swim in 59 degree water after ditching: http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/med...4/Survival.htm Without a flight plan, without radio contact, and without a flotation device, Maready started swimming west, using Orion's Belt to guide her toward shore. The weight of her wet clothes felt as if they were pulling her under. Deciding to swim to shore rather than drown, Maready removed her shoes, her clothes, and even her wris****ch, which she could feel creating drag against the 59-degree-Atlantic current. It was 2200, and the tide was not in her favor. Her two-mile swim to land now had tripled against the outgoing tide. In the darkness, she barely saw her hands in front of her face. Thoughts of South Carolina's coast being second in the number of shark attacks only to Florida did not comfort her, and hypothermia was beginning to attack her body. "Gradually, my body began to shiver. As the shivers worsened, I noticed my hands were becoming gnarled and stiff. I made myself keep moving, forced myself to keep up the swimming movements, but, even as I continued, I could feel my toes crossing, my feet arching and cramping into grotesque, fixed positions. It was my body, and what was happening to it terrified me." Cathy Maready couldn't stop the thoughts of death from entering her mind, but she refused to give up the will-to-live. "I thought it might be nice if I spent a little bit of the time I had left to say goodbye to my family and loved ones. I believe most people in survival situations would tend to cherish these times. For me, it was time well spent. As I was saying my good-byes, the water around me began to warm. My whole world began to seem warmer. It was invigorating just to think about my loved ones. I gained new energy, and my arms began to move again, very slowly, but still moving." As Maready kept swimming, hallucinations of search boats, rescue helicopters, and sea monsters started to replace the darkness and silence of the night. She was exhausted but continued swimming, with the hallucinations beckoning her to stop. She wanted to stop and yell for help, but the mere thought of stopping made Maready feel as if she would sink like a stone. She decided the next time she would stop swimming was when someone pulled her out of the water or when her feet touched the sand. With what she describes as angels pulling her arms forward through the water and a renewed faith in her heart, Maready eventually reached shore, a grueling seven and a half hours after the crash. "Finally, even as I mentally was preparing myself for death, I felt it. My knees were hitting a sand bar. I knew what it was, but I was too numb to stand. Almost ready to cry, knowing how close the shore was, I was forced to swim around the sand bar, out into deeper water, to reach dry land. Agonizingly, I kept going. My faith was pushing me; it was pulling me, carrying me to shore. It was daybreak before I made the beach. I still can hear the oyster shells cracking under my weight. I still can see the blood flowing from my cuts, but, at the time, I was too numb to feel a thing." Maready was found staggering along the beach, suffering from shock and severe hypothermia. She spent the next three days in intensive care. When she recovered, specialists were called to review, in amazement, her medical charts. Chemicals in her body had built up so high from exertion they literally were off the scale. Three days later, she was released from the hospital. http://gosport.pensacolanewsjournal....0B5983A5.shtml "There's just this will that we all have within us, we just go, we just do what we've gotta do," Maready said with quiet conviction. Maready said she kept swimming until she started feeling disconnected from her body. "My head didn't feel like it was attached anymore. It's a strange feeling, but I could actually feel my body shutting down. I could feel myself dying." That's when Maready decided she should start saying goodbye to everybody. Suddenly her knee hit a sandbar. After swimming in the cold water of the Atlantic Ocean for seven hours, Maready was too weak to stand. Her ordeal was nearly over, but if she couldn't pull herself out of the water, she would risk drowning. |
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What makes you think that he wasn't? Just because he died doesn't mean
he wasn't being cared for.. Just my .02 though. YMMV Jon Peter R. wrote: Jon Kraus wrote: Amen brother... I don't believe in coincidences any more nor am I a religious zealot... I just KNOW that I am being cared for... :-) So, who was caring for that 20 year-old who ditched in the lake? |
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Peter R. wrote:
So, who was caring for that 20 year-old who ditched in the lake? The ones that got him down: the pilot who was relaying his calls to ATC, the 911 operator who took his phone call after he ditched and lost aviation radio contact... He was calm and collected the entire time, I'd say he knew where he was going and they were already there with him... |
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