Tag: survival

Handsome rescue diver in his mid forties with short dark hair, light stubble and blue-gray eyes standing on a wooden dock above a crystal-clear blue Florida spring at golden hour, wearing a wetsuit pulled down to the waist

Two Divers Were Trapped 300 Feet Inside a Flooded Cave in Florida With 40 Minutes of Air Left. I’m the Man They Call When the Rescue Is Probably Already Too Late

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Under the crystal-clear springs of North Florida, there are miles of flooded caves. They’re beautiful, and they kill people every year. When two college students went in without the right training and didn’t come out, the sheriff called me. Not because I’m the best. Because I’m the closest.

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Handsome bush pilot in his late forties with dark hair graying at the temples, a short dark beard and blue eyes standing beside a small white propeller plane on a desert airstrip near Reno at golden hour

My Plane Went Down in the Nevada Desert With an 81-Year-Old Woman in the Passenger Seat. She Said It Was the Most Fun She’d Had in Years. We Had One Bottle of Water

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I fly a small plane for hire out of Reno. Mostly hunters, surveyors and rich people in a hurry. That morning, my passenger was an 81-year-old widow who’d booked me to scatter her husband’s ashes over the Black Rock Desert. Forty minutes into the flight, the engine quit. She didn’t scream. She asked if she could take a picture.

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