facts verse presents five times Google
Maps saved lives number one a kidnap
victim was saved this is one of the five
times
Google Maps saved lives and Sander Co
Claire is lucky that it did sandir Co
Claire was at work one day at Smet UK
limited out of the blue a bitter
ex-employee of the company named John
Charles showed up at the office and
kidnapped sander according to John his
boss owed him money so he wanted to use
Sanders credentials so that he could
schedule a one-on-one meeting with his
former boss when John kidnapped sander
he managed to hide his phone from him he
waited until John left the room and he
used Google Maps to send his location to
his boss when his boss got the
information they went to the location
and saved sander John was arrested for
kidnapping immediately after number two
man finds his way home after 23 years
when a man named Saru was 5 years old he
accidentally got on board a runaway
train in India he was separated from his
family and had no idea how to find his
way home
for 23 years he searched for his family
but because he was so young when he was
separated from them he couldn't remember
where his family lived or even their
last name the only thing that he did
remember about his home was that his
home town was closed off by two bridges
he used Google Maps and Google Earth and
he was able to find the town once there
it didn't take long before he found his
family
according to Saru Google Maps and Google
Earth saved his life because he wasn't
really living while he was apart from
his family number 3 saved from a desert
island three men began having boat
trouble and they managed to get to the
shore of a deserted island none of them
were survivalists and they had no
experience in nature after a day or so
the men decided to gather
as many leaves and branches as they
could so that they could spell out the
word help
he wasn't long before the men and their
cry for help was spotted on Google Earth
not long after a US Navy plane flew
above the island and saw the man's
distress signal it wasn't long before
the men were rescued and reunited with
their friends and family members since
their time on the island that men say
they are giving up boating instead they
say that they have been binge-watching
episodes of Gilligan's Island number
four Google Maps
finds missing man a man named David Lee
Niles was leaving Jake's bar in Byron
Township Michigan on October 11th 2006
for years his family searched for him in
hopes that he was alive somewhere at the
time of his disappearance he was 67
years old finally in 2011 his family
hesitantly lost hope and they published
an epitome even though they prayed
everyday that he was alive in November
2017 the car was found and David's body
was inside it was found when someone
spotted a vehicle submerged in a pond on
Google Maps when they uncovered the car
they found the skeletal remains of David
inside Google Maps may not have been
able to save David's life however it did
save his family's finally having answers
to their questions about their loved one
allowed them to move on one of his
family members stated that they were
just not living not knowing where David
really was number five missing teen
walks out of Great Smoky Mountains
National Park a 15 year old boy named
Austin Bohannon from Blount County
Tennessee went hiking on an off trail
hike in the remote southwest corner of
the area
he was alone and it didn't take long
before he lost his way he realized
quickly that he had no phone signal in
the mountains so he turned his phone off
for 11 days he tried to find his way
home the day after he left his
stepfather reported him missing the
Rangers didn't
to send out to many searchers because
too many people could destroy tracks
left by Austin on the 11th day he
realized that even though he didn't have
a phone signal he could probably get a
GPS signal he turned his phone on and
Google Maps led him out of a backcountry
area known as tad cat Creek when he was
found he was taken to a nearby hospital
in Maryville Tennessee where he was
treated for exhaustion and dehydration
he said that if it were not for his GPS
signal and Google Maps he would never
have made it out of the woods alive
subscribe for more
you