Google Maps and Google Street is an amazing and fantastic invention you can
look up anywhere you need to go to and also get directions if you're in a new
town but sometimes these apps are used for more than just finding a local
Starbucks these are sometimes Google Maps has actually saved people's life
from people who were castaways on an island to a boy who found his home after
decades lost I'm Charlie and today we're going to look at Times Google Maps saved
lives but before we get into it why not subscribe and press the notification
bell - coming up first we have castaway for a lot of people their biggest fear
is getting washed up on an abandoned Island kind of like the movie castaway
well that's exactly what's happened to three sailors in 2016 one night their
boat was having trouble and they had to swim to a deserted island this island
was called fana deke and it was several hundred miles north of Papua New Guinea
for three days they were stranded on this island the men had no knowledge of
how to survive in nature but they did use stones to spell out the word help
soon someone using a google satellite was able to see the word health spelt
out in stones then a US Navy plane flew above the island and saw the main signal
thankfully the US Navy landed and rescued the men all of the sailors have
now retired from boating and I can see why next up is corporate kidnapping we
all know that Google can be used for solving crimes but what about stopping
an ongoing crime that's what happened to sander Co Claire in 2015 sander worked
for the British business SME tuk limited but one day as he was going to work an
ex-employee of the company named John Charles kidnapped in John Charles the
ex-employee was very bitter apparently his boss owed him money which is why he
kidnapped sander he wanted to use sander to schedule a one-on-one meeting with
him and his former boss but when John kidnapped sander sandy was able to hide
his phone from John sander then waited until John had left the room and then he
used Google Maps and sent his location to his boss when his boss got the Google
map linked to his location he drove there immediately and thankfully he was
able to save his employee sander the police were also called and they
arrested John John was then sentenced to eight
years in jail next up is homecoming when you're a kid there's nothing scarier
than getting lost we all know that fear of losing our parents in a supermarket
well if you think that's bad then hear the story of one kid named Sarah when
Sarah was 5 years old he got on board a runaway train in India he was then
separated from his village and his family had no way to get home he had to
start a whole new life all by himself and for 23 years he searched for his
family but because he was so young when he was separated from them he could
remember where they were or where they lived he couldn't even remember his
family's last name however he did remember one thing that was that his
home town was closed off by two bridges so when he was older and when Google
Maps was invented he went on the site using the knowledge of the two bridges
closing off his town he was able to find it on Google Maps he traveled to his
town and was able to find his family Saru credits Google Maps and Earth with
saving his life he says without his family he wasn't really living but now
he lives with them reunited all thanks to Google Maps next stop is forest
escape every year 60 people go missing in national parks around the USA some of
them are gigantic and people like to go off trial which is why they get lost
this is what happened to one 15 year old boy named Austin Bohannon in 2017 he's
from Tennessee USA in one day went hiking off a trail this was in the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park he was walking alone and soon lost his
way and he realized he had no phone signal either for 11 days he walked
around the National Park with no food and no water he had been reported
missing and Rangers had gone out to look for him but they didn't want too many
people to go out because they didn't want to destroy any tracks left by
Austin on the 11th day he realized that while his phone didn't have signal he
may be able to get a GPS signal he turned his phone on and sure enough
Google Maps led him out of the area he was led to an area called tab cat Creek
there he was able to get to a local town and explain what had happened he was
taken to a local hospital and was treated for exhaustion and dehydration
he said if it wasn't for Google Maps and GPS he would have
made it out of the forest alive so guys remember never go off trail when you're
walking in a national park next up is missing car in October of 2006 a man
named David Lee Niles went missing he was last seen one night leaving Jake's
spur and Byron Township Michigan for years his family surged day and night
trying to find him alive somewhere at the time of his disappearance he was 67
years old this means he may not have fared - well if he got lost somewhere
but five years later in 2011 the family lost hope even though they prayed every
day he was still alive they thought he was probably not then six years later in
2017 a car was found and David was inside it the car was found because
someone was looking at a pond on Google Maps from the satellite images they
realized a car was submerged in the pond inside the car was David's skeleton
which is very sad so while Google Maps didn't save his life it did save his
family from having to wonder about what happened to him thankfully they now have
answers as to what happened to their loved relative some family members even
said they weren't really living not knowing where David was but now it's
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