I know by now, you’ve heard about the 4 men who traveled out to sea on Saturday to get some deep sea fishing done. After combing over 22000 square miles of water to find the men, the search was called off on Tuesday at 6:30 pm. There was one survivor: Nick Schuyer.
Dr.’s say Nick Schuyer’s survival was a medical miracle. There was no way he was to survive for 46 hours in that water with temperatures dropping to the mid 50’s, he should’ve suffered from hyperthermia.
Nick Schuyer’s story: The boat flipped, and the men were unable to flip the capsized boat back over but were able to swim underneath and get the life jackets and put them on. Marquis Cooper, after the boat had been flipped over for a couple hours, tore off his life jacket and just floated to sea. Said he couldn’t take any more of the beating from the ocean. Corey Smith was next to do the same thing. Just left there was Will Bleakley and Nick. Nick states that Will said he noticed a light in the distance and was going to make a swim for it; never to be seen again. This just left Nick, which was probably best for him, because he could then sit atop the flipped boat and wait for rescuers. The 4 men would not have been able to all sit on the top of the boat and would’ve caught hyperthermia if they would’ve had to stay in the water.
Have you ever seen Open Water?
That has got to be the scariest way to go out EVER. Out in the middle of the ocean. Feeling animals and items bumping you from under the Ocean waters and not knowing what it is. Remember people, this isn’t a movie; there are no lights out there. You’re floating one moment and then you just feel a sharp pain in your lower leg, not even know that sharks are down there nibbling on you at their leisure. Then once the blood enters the sea, any shark in a 300 mile radius gets a sniff, and it’s DINNER TIME!
Can you imagine how fast your heart races when there are two massive sharks fighting over you for dinner?
What makes you take off your life jacket and just float out to sea? My God.
What makes you see a light in the distance and even THINK about swimming to it? Was he hallucinating?
At sea, you could see a light that is a 100 miles away, but if there’s NO OTHER light out, it’ll look SO MUCH closer.
Keep the families in your prayers.
Chuuch
Wow. I can't imagine what they went through. It's hard to understand why they wouldn't want to stay near the boat just to hold on to it or hope that someone would be able to see them... sad stuff.
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