Strange escape phases in disaster

2 fishermen in Kiribati island in the Pacific have escaped after 57 days of drifting in the sea without food and drinks. They survived when they fell into the center of the storm in the vast sea.

Disaster and miraculous escapes

Survive in the sea

Typhoon (called Pacific Ocean) seen from satellite images are giant swirls covering thousands of kilometers, creating standing waves like a wall over ten meters tall. Standing in front of this "god of the sea" , ships weighing tens of thousands of tons are like fragile leaves. So, two fishermen Atabu Baiaa , 32 years old and Ruben Baeke , 22, of Kiribati Island (Pacific Ocean), escaped after 57 days of floating at sea without food and drinks.

Kiribati Island in the Pacific Ocean.(Photo: kiritours.com)

In extreme conditions, the most difficult thing to survive is drinking water. People can starve for months, but lack of water for only a few days will result in death. Moreover, every day the body loses about 1.5 liters of water through the excreted route. If exercising, more water is lost. In order to survive, two lucky fishermen drank precious rain drops and the juice from the fish caught. They even had to drink sea water. The only food is raw fish meat.

In addition, usually after only a few days drifting on the sea, people will fall into a state of panic, sometimes the victims will die of fear before their energy resources run out. But those 2 fishermen still have good psychological state. When a Papua New Guinea ship rescued them, the sailors were surprised to learn that the health of 2 fishermen was still good after the horrific challenges they had experienced. This is probably one of the luckiest cases in history.

Survive between desert sand storms

The Taklamakan Desert located in the Tarim Basin in northwestern Xinjiang, China, is one of the largest deserts in the world. There is a difference in temperature to scary. In the evening the temperature may drop to negative, in contrast to the daytime, hot to over 40 degrees C.

In such harsh conditions, Alexander Zverev (Russian) was rescued after 25 days of distress. People found him in a state of exhaustion. To fight the night cold, Zverev slept in a cave, he made a bed with a tree branch. Zverev said the helmet saved his life because it had a heat-retaining layer and when night fell, he put it under his back so his body wouldn't lose heat. When Zverev was found, rescue workers could not believe that their efforts paid off, as Zverev was lost in a too wide and harsh area.

Taklamakan Desert

Pass the ice

Cold ice, sometimes as low as - 40 degrees Celsius is always a challenge for all creatures. At very low temperatures, the human body falls into a state of heat loss. Accompanying are the effects on the cardiovascular and nervous system, which can lead to necrosis of organs such as limbs. Sunlight reflected on snow ice can cause visual burns .

Yet, a family of 6 members can live in a truck stuck between avalanches at a place of 1,158m above sea level . 17 days.

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During a trip to the remote mountains of Oregon (USA), the truck carrying the Stivers family vacationed after derailed from a road in southwestern Oregon was stuck in a layer of snow more than 1 meter thick. They have no way of contacting the outside world. After a while, the emergency rescue team stopped searching because it was hoped that all hope of life for the missing people would be lost. But with extraordinary efforts, the couple Pete Stivers and Marlo walked through the wild snowy mountains for 2 days before being discovered. Later, rescue workers used helicopters to reach the truck to rescue the victim.

Tsunami escape

The massive tsunami caused by an earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale on December 26, 2005 in South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Africa has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.

The waves of waves, tens of meters high, swept away all coastal villages. After the disaster, thousands of new corpses were found every hour and the number of missing people kept increasing.

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Mr. Shahputra was swept into the sea by the tsunami and was lucky to escape after 8 days clinging to a tree by eating coconut and drinking rainwater. Shahputra was swept away by the tsunami when he was cleaning the temple. Then he clung to the branches with some other people in the village, but in the end they were engulfed in the sea. The sailor of a cruise ship from South Africa to Malaysia discovered he was standing on a raft waving in despair. He was found in very weak condition and sunburned. Nine other victims of the tsunami were found on Campbell Bay in Andaman Bay after 38 days. These people had to eat and drink coconut water to live before being found by police helicopters.