I Thought It Was Over | National Geographic

everybody was wanting to get on the
ferry and it was like a like a rope
ladder and I tried to grab ahold of it
but by then the ferry was having to back
up and it you know drag me back into the
water
I had already been in the water and I
was some hypothermic I thought I just
can’t I can’t there’s no way I cannot
climb up this rope ladder there’s
there’s a snow way I mean I didn’t have
any energy I didn’t have the strength
I couldn’t understand you know God let
me live through a plane crash but I was
going to die you know because I was
going to end up being sucked under this
theory
every time I looked over my right
shoulder I would just sort of get a face
full of water
all right hand slipped off and I’m just
holding on my left hand I was thinking I
won’t get to see my children anymore he
not my husband
and I really thought it was gonna be
just as I looked over one more time
sorry I saw someone swimming towards me
I asked her her name she said her name
was Shay and I said my name is Michael
and I’m gonna help you get out of the
water
as we got closer towards the scene there
was a flash of red that that caught the
corner of my eye
she just really seemed to be holding on
she wasn’t really climbing up or trying
to get get herself out of the water and
I said that person right there that’s
what we need to get to first
and that’s when I jumped out of a
helicopter
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