10 Amazing Survival Stories that will Amaze You
10.
Gerrit Blank
With movies like "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact" ingrained into our psyche, when
there's a meteorite heading towards the Earth we're programmed to expect the world
is going to end.
But for 14-year old Gerrit Blank, it was no skin off his nose when a meteorite going 30,000
mph directly hit him.
He claims that he saw a ball of light as the pea-sized hot rock hit his hand and landed
on the ground, making a 1-foot crater.
Besides leaving a 3-inch scar on his hand, Blank incredible survived.
Scientists examined the rock and it was confirmed that the rock, whose impact was enough to
shatter the earth below Gerrit, had come from space.
9.
Matt Suter
Young Matt Suter made headlines across the United States when he survived a tornado in
his hometown in Missouri.
But this is more than just an ordinary tornado survival story.
Suter actually rode a tornado wearing only his boxer shorts.
He was at his grandmother's trailer when the tornado tore through, sucking Matt into
the whirlwind storm.
He regained consciousness in a field about 1,307 feet away where a nearby family found
him.
Now, you would think that Suter was probably covered in blood, had broken bones, or some
sort of life-threatening injury.
Nope!
He got a cut on his head from a lamp but that's about it.
8.
Sophie Tucker
This is the heartwarming story of an Australian cattle dog, Sophie Tucker.
Okay, it's not a human survival story, but bear with us here: In November of 2008, Sophie
fell overboard during her family's yacht trip.
Jan Griffith thought for sure her dog had drowned.
But Sophie Tucker swam through 5-6 miles of dangerous, shark infested waters to an island
where the dog survived by hunting and killing wild goats and koalas.
Residents of the island reported seeing a dog, and wildlife rangers caught her.
When the Griffith family caught wind of the story it was 4 months since they'd seen
their beloved pet but they went to check out the situation.
Much to their shock and joy, it was indeed Sophie Tucker.
The little dog who could.
7.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi
Imagine surviving not one, but two blasts from an atomic bomb.
That's exactly what happened to 29-year old Tsutomu Yamaguchi in 1945.
He was an employee of Mitsubishi in the midst of World War II, and on a business trip to
Hiroshima when the United States dropped the atomic bomb on the city.
Yamaguchi was luckily just far enough away from the blast to avoid being killed.
When he returned home to Nagasaki, however, the US dropped yet another atomic bomb while
he was at work.
Incredibly, he survived the second blast as well.
He went on to become an advocate for the anti-nuclear weapons cause and demanded their abolition
in 2006.
Yamaguchi passed away in 2010, at the age of 93.
6.
Aron Ralston
Aron Ralston's story has been since immortalized on the big screen in the 2010 movie, "127
Hours", starring James Franco.
But it doesn't make Ralston's story any less incredible.
In 2003, while hiking in the Blue Ridge Canyon in Utah, the boulder he had been climbing
became dislodged and he (and the boulder) fell down the canyon, crushing his right hand
and pinning him against the canyon wall.
Ralston's biggest mistake was that he hadn't told anyone he was climbing so no one knew
to look for him or even where to look for him.
After 5 days of being trapped, he ran out of food and water and had to drink his own
urine.
Convinced he was going to die, he wrote out his name and birth date (plus presumed date
of death) and fell asleep.
He woke up the next morning delirious and dehydrated and started the hour-long process
of amputating his hand at the mid-forearm.
After he was freed, he climbed out of the canyon and was found by a family, who got
him food, water, and medical assistance.
Ralston's arm was recovered after an extensive process involving 13 men, and then cremated
with the ashes returned to Ralston.
Ralston scattered the ashes in the canyon during an interview with Tom Brokaw saying
it's where they belong.
5.
Juliane Koepcke
Being the daughter of adventuring scientists, Juliane Koepcke was no stranger to the jungle.
So , in 1971 at the young age of 17, when Koepcke survived a horrific plane crash that
killed her mother and everyone else on board she was ready for the challenge.
She survived a 10,000-foot fall while still strapped to her seat and she landed in the
Peruvian jungle all alone.
Using the skills taught to her by her parents, Koepcke was able to survive 11 days in the
jungle until she finally found civilization.
In September of 2013, at the age of 58, Koepcke (who became a biologist like her parents)
recounted her chilling experience
4.
Harrison Okene
Harrison Okene, a Nigerian boat cook, made headlines in 2013 when he survived three days
being buried alive under the sea.
It all started at 4:30am on May 26th when he got up to use the bathroom.
The tugboat he was working on was overturned (likely due to a swell), and water began flooding
into the living quarters.
Okene found himself trapped in the tugboat as it fell 100 feet below the ocean surface
in complete darkness.
Wearing only his boxers he waded through the corridors searching for supplies.
He found a light source, Coca Cola and other tools.
He knew he was running out of oxygen so he found a safe corner of the ship and used mattresses
to block out water and created a 4-foot air pocket.
All the while, Okene heard sharks and barracudas fighting over the remains of his shipmates.
Okene ended up surviving for 62 hours, to the shock of the rescue divers.
His skin was raw from the salt water and the cuts and bruises from the accident, but a
number of factors – the air pockets amplifying the amount of oxygen in his survival space
and the cold water absorbing the carbon dioxide he was breathing out – helped him survive
the ordeal.
3.
Bethany Hamilton
The nature of the ocean is notoriously both beautiful and menacing, with obscure secrets
below its obscure surface.
So we can all imagine the profound fear of swimming through the ocean, minding your own
business, catching a few waves with your surfboard, and having a shark swim by and rip off your
arm.
Just the trauma from the loss of blood alone is enough to send anyone to an early grave,
even if the shark doesn't come back for the other three limbs.
Well, that's what happened in 2003 to 13-year old Bethany Hamilton while she was lying down
on her board with her left arm dangling in the water.
But what's more incredible is that after the shark ripped off her left arm just below
the shoulder, Hamilton swam back to shore with the help of her best friend – not before
warning fellow surfers and swimmers that there was a shark in the water.
Her story inspired many documentaries and published books.
After a short break, the incredibly brave Hamilton eventually even returned to surfing.
2.
Andes Disaster
In October 1972, a Uruguayan plane carrying 45 people including rugby players and students
crashed in the Andes Mountains.
The temperature was 30 degrees below zero at night time and 12 people had died in the
initial crash.
The survivors had very little in terms of food and water and eventually had to turn
to cannibalism in order to stay alive.
The survivors lost almost all hope when they heard on the plane's radio that the search
for their plane had ended.
A number of survivors, however, banded together to form an expedition party which would search
for help.
After a number of failed attempts to cross the treacherous terrain and 72 days of being
stranded, the group who had left the crash site had managed to make themselves known
to civilians and the 16 survivors were eventually found.
The ordeal still haunts the remaining survivors over 40 years later.
1.
William Rankin
William Henry Rankin lived to the old age of 93 when he passed in 2009.
But on July 26, 1959, he had a brush with death that he never forgot.
He was flying an F-8 jet fighter from Massachusetts to South Carolina when he got caught in the
midst of an aggressive thunderstorm.
He pulled his plane over a thunderhead and reached the altitude of 45,000 feet.
When the engine in his plane stopped, he tried to deploy the auxiliary power to no avail,
so he had no choice but to eject his seat into air around -50 C. He was using his emergency
oxygen supply to breathe and he was immediately experiencing frostbite as well as the decompression
causing his mouth, eyes, ears, and nose to bleed.
After 5 minutes his parachute didn't deploy, so he was essentially floating and riding
the wind during this lightning and thunderstorm.
Because he was spinning so fast, he was also vomiting, as hailstorms were hitting him.
Despite all this sheer horror, he survived when his parachute eventually opened, landing
him safely in a forest.
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