About the people caught in extreme conditions, when, seemingly completely no chance to survive, but they survived, they say that they are "back from hell." And such cases, history abounds. Well, then, each with the fate of their relationship ...
This happened in 1891 during the whaling near the Falkland Islands. Since the ship "Star of the 1st" lowered the boat to harpoon a huge whale. Whalers thrust his harpoon into it, but he rammed and overturned the boat. From the second he finished off the boat and picked up six fishermen. Another one killed a sperm whale tail, and the eighth - a young sailor, James Bartley - has disappeared, probably drowned.
For two hours whalers butchered on the deck of the ship whale carcass when they saw a strange convulsive twitching of the stomach. They opened the stomach and froze with fear: there, lying in a forgetful state James. In the hospital he came and told me that after hitting his thrown up, and then came total darkness, and he felt that slides down on some channel. The temperature of the ball so high that he lost consciousness. Bartley, however, not fully recovered. His hands, face, neck, under the action of gastric juice whale covered with white as snow patches. In 1896, having lived another 5 years, Bartley died. In this unlikely event gave statements (certified under oath) whaling ship crew members and all the statements has been confirmed by well-known physicians and scientists who investigated the sailor.
During the Second World War, an obscure Polish town became a place of gathering Walim SS and SD. As it turned out, there are built in caves preparing superweapon Hitler. From the fitting of the prisoners there for no return. Bare stone plateau was a place where locals almost did not go. Old-timers will recall that after the defeat of the Germans in the area of the ground under Walim from time to time came the dull roar of automatic queues. Later, the mystery was revealed: the Germans blew up before leaving the entrances to the cave and sealed it alive four soldiers, who two years (!) Tried to attract the attention of shots. When struck the concrete vault, the hole's head poluzverya-polucheloveka, make only a gurgling sound. This was the only one of four immured in the tunnel ...
What happened in late 1960 at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant, surprised even the most experienced steelworkers. During the repair brigadier Vasiliev from the furnace was set to pull down device-thermal probe. And then there was terrible: the weakening of vault collapsed. Man fell into a white-hot oven (the temperature was several hundred degrees!). Instant decision was made head boy's shop-to. He rushed to the console and managed to open a metal door. Flaps up, and from the fire in the belly burning clothes jumped foreman: in the tragic moment, he instinctively covered his face with a hollow jacket and holding his breath. Make it at least one breath and open your eyes - everything would be over. Hath his great stamina and resourcefulness comrade. The whole incident lasted for 15-20 seconds!
The tragedy, which occurred in 1965 in the Bering Sea, is difficult to understanding. During a severe storm tragically killed four trawler Far management of marine fisheries: "Nakhichevan", "Sevsk", "Sebej and Boksitogorsk. Of all the crew members managed to escape only one - Anatolia Okhrimenko, senior tralmasteru "Boksitogorsk.
On this case, no record was kept in the ship's magazines - all swallowed the raging sea, and what happened, there were only the words of a single witness. The storm started suddenly on January 16. Forecasters do not even have time to warn the fishermen. That's what told Anatoly:
- This hurricane no one remembered: the wind speed reached 30 meters per second. The air was filled with dust and water splashes. The situation on board was dangerous - he threatened to icing.
The crew of three days without sleep wrestled with ice, skalyvaya it. It is at such a hurricane! Picks, crowbars, axes, shear off ice blocks, ready to overturn the ship. The situation was complicated by the fact that the trawler was without refueling: fuel and water running out, and fish holds are empty. All this reduced the stability of the vessel. In the same situation were the other three trawler.
Trouble came early in the morning of January 19 - when you turn the ship a huge wave of heavily tilted it. From the second wave of trawler hull creaked, roll reached 80 degrees, the mast touched the water.
With difficulty clambered onto the deck and seeing that the trawler flips, Anatoly with Nikolai Kozel came out on the gunwale. Ship began rapidly rolling. Sailors on the icy body miraculously climbed onto the keel. Screw ship spun like a fan - the machine continued to work. Near the water they saw svoihdruzey. Their own wave immediately washed away with the keel. Nicholas grabbed the ice floe and it was attributed to the side of the sinking ship. Near no one, all the scattered waves, while others seem to have drowned.
Minutes seemed like an eternity. Suddenly Anatoly noticed coming in his direction the ship. It was a trawler Urup. Since he noticed the ship upside down and a number of rights. With some difficulty managed to pull Anatolia sailors on deck. Steam bath and all that is laid in such cases, quickly restored power sailor.
What happened with the other three trawlers nobody will tell, no doubt, only one thing: they all rolled over after a heavy icing. More than two weeks we searched the waters of an area of about 120 thousand square miles. Fishermen looking for ships, aircraft, but ... And if the story is not the only witness the terrible hurricane, we would have never learned the details of the tragedy.
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