Tell us your survival stories

[CBC News]

Two men from Sweden who managed to land their small plane on ice and leapt free of the aircraft before it sank in frigid waters south of Baffin Island were rescued Monday by a fishing vessel.

The captain of the vessel that picked them up says both men were grateful to see the fishing ship approach after spending 18 hours stranded on the ice.

At the time the men were picked up, it was -13 C in Iqaluit, but Mortensen said the weather was generally good.

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[karrie]

I think the only thing that counts as a survival story for me is the time I was leaving a bush party and my friend rolled the truck we were in. It was a fairly untraveled highway, the driver had ripped her shirt up to bandage the numerous cuts and such on the other passenger, and we all had to start walking to try to find help or get home, one of us topless, the other bandaged up, and me severely concussed and bleeding.

The survival part is not that we didn't die from the rollover, but, that we were found by a normal person and not some freak. We'd have made easy pickings.

 

[JLM]

I think the only thing that counts as a survival story for me is the time I was leaving a bush party and my friend rolled the truck we were in. It was a fairly untraveled highway, the driver had ripped her shirt up to bandage the numerous cuts and such on the other passenger, and we all had to start walking to try to find help or get home, one of us topless, the other bandaged up, and me severely concussed and bleeding.

The survival part is not that we didn't die from the rollover, but, that we were found by a normal person and not some freak. We'd have made easy pickings.

I think most people in the world would help you in an emergency, Karrie, but sometimes with all the freaks running rampant you do have to be careful who to trust.

 

[karrie]

I think most people in the world would help you in an emergency, Karrie, but sometimes with all the freaks running rampant you do have to be careful who to trust.

The problem is, with some instances I've seen happen to people around me it's become clear... the freaks have an eerie sense of timing.