Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Never Ever Give Up!
These are the amazing stories of survival.
A woman was swept out to sea after the Tsunami devastated her village in Bandar Acheh in northern Sumatra. She floated in the shark-infested ocean clinging to a floating palm tree under the hot sun. She was hungry and thirsty. She drank the palm’s sap and nibbled its fruits and bark. Whenever it rains, she drank the rainwater. The thorns of the palm tree cut her hands and body and fishes were biting her body, but she refused to give up. Six days later, she was rescued by a passing fishing boat.
At the same time, another man clinked onto a door after been washed out to the sea. For days he floated in the sea. The thirst and hunger would have killed him but he held on. He was able to find some coconuts floating in the water. He used the doorknob to break open the coconuts. He was rescued five days later
They survived because they never gave up.
A woman was swept out to sea after the Tsunami devastated her village in Bandar Acheh in northern Sumatra. She floated in the shark-infested ocean clinging to a floating palm tree under the hot sun. She was hungry and thirsty. She drank the palm’s sap and nibbled its fruits and bark. Whenever it rains, she drank the rainwater. The thorns of the palm tree cut her hands and body and fishes were biting her body, but she refused to give up. Six days later, she was rescued by a passing fishing boat.
At the same time, another man clinked onto a door after been washed out to the sea. For days he floated in the sea. The thirst and hunger would have killed him but he held on. He was able to find some coconuts floating in the water. He used the doorknob to break open the coconuts. He was rescued five days later
They survived because they never gave up.
