welcome to watch mojo
and today we're counting down our picks
for the people who survived more than
one disaster
at six pounds 15 ounces this little girl
is a survivor and will have a big story
to tell
one day when she gets older
but when this swedish couple and their
baby left home for a four month long
honeymoon trip
they couldn't have imagined the troubles
ahead for this list
we're looking at some truly unlucky
people or lucky depending on how you
look at it who were unfortunate enough
to suffer through more than one disaster
luckily though they made it out alive
which of these stories is your favorite
let us know in the comments below number
eight
rahmut saiful bachri this indonesian man
survived
two separate tsunamis the first was the
boxing day tsunami of 2004 that killed
nearly 228 000 people across 14
countries
an earthquake off the coast of indonesia
triggered a tsunami that
surged across the indian ocean and
reached as far
as the coast of africa whole sections of
cities were destroyed
fortunately bahri was not among the
victims his life slowly returned to
normal until 2018
when barry was visiting the island city
of palu this was the location of the
2018 sulawesi earthquake and tsunami
which claimed the lives of 4 340 people
people have also been trapped under
destroyed homes
hotels and a shopping mall barry felt
the earthquake while showering in his
hotel room and quickly made his way up
to the fifth floor to avoid the
resulting wave
barry's calm under pressure and clever
thinking resulted in his survival yet
again
unfortunately some of his friends were
not so lucky after running to the ground
floor
they were swept up by the tsunami it
will take palu and its residents a long
time to recover from what was destroyed
in just a matter of seconds
and some wounds may never heal he
credits his double survival to god
telling the bbc quote this shows that
god still loves me
number 7. zachrul fuari rahmood saiful
bahri is not the only person to have
survived two tsunamis
he shares that distinction with zarul
fuwari fuari was another victim of the
boxing date tsunami
his house was destroyed by the water but
fuwadi and his family survived by
escaping on a motorcycle
as he told abc quote i was running away
from the aceh tsunami back then
and thinking that was the end of the
world he then moved to japan and became
a doctoral student
unfortunately it was here that he was
affected by another earthquake and
tsunami
in march of 2011 japan's tohoku region
was struck by the most powerful
earthquake in the country's history
resulting in a tsunami that killed
nearly 16 000 people
in kesanuma people retreated to a
high-rise rooftop
and could only watch in horror as
tsunami waves
inundated their city fortunately fuani
and his family were on campus at the
time
and were spared the deadly waves however
they were still left without power or
water
number six casimir polymos the story of
casimir polymos remains hard to verify
but it has been officially reported in a
2004 publication of ripley's believe it
or not
born in france polymus supposedly
survived three different shipwrecks in
the late 19th century
the first came in july of 1875 when the
jean catherine sank off the city of
brest france
tragedy struck again in september 1880
when the trois freyr met disaster in the
bay of biscay
palemos probably should have sworn off
ships following a second sinking but no
just 16 months after surviving the wreck
of the trois freyr
polymors faced disaster yet again when
lodell sank off the coast of
newfoundland canada
he survived his third and final
shipwreck and we can only assume
never set foot on another ship for the
rest of his life
someone up there must have really liked
mr polemos
number five wenman wycombe musgrave if
you think kasamir polymus had it bad
just wait until you hear about this poor
man wenman wycombe musgrave was a navy
midshipman aboard the hms abukir during
the first world war
the armored cruiser was patrolling an
area of sea off the dutch coast
and was accompanied by the hms hogue and
hms cressie
unfortunately they came across the
infamous german u-boat u-9
the submarine torpedoed the abukir
sending wycombe musgrave into the water
he successfully swam to the hogue but
this too was torpedoed soon after his
arrival
alive but weak and tired wycombe
musgrave swam to the cressy
only for this ship to be sunk by a
torpedo in kind
of chip like rose in titanic like a
musgrave floated on a piece of wood in
the open ocean before he was rescued by
a trawler
in the span of just one hour all three
cruisers sank
and approximately 1450 people were
killed
striking a major blow to the royal
navy's reputation
number four stefan and erica svenstrum
it should have been the holiday of a
lifetime
but when this swedish couple and their
baby left home for a four month long
honeymoon trip
they couldn't have imagined the troubles
ahead this swedish couple faced the
honeymoon from hell
in 2011. the swanstroms loved to travel
and to commemorate their wedding they
embarked on a four-month-long adventure
honeymoon spanning multiple countries
and continents
they brought their baby daughter eleanor
along for the trip in indonesia
they experienced a monsoon that ripped
the roof off their bus
in australia they faced a bushfire in
perth and then a cyclone in cairns
resulting in their evacuation by the
australian red cross
in japan the family of three was in
tokyo during the tohoku earthquake and
tsunami
they also narrowly missed disaster in
christchurch new zealand
as that city was rocked by an earthquake
right before their flight there
they were subsequently redirected to
auckland luckily the svonstrom family
made it through each misfortune
unharmed they certainly experienced
adventure but it probably
wasn't the type they had in mind we also
came to brisbane in australia
driving after the floodings so that's a
shorty or what happened number three
gabriella cohn she crossed five states
during the first two weeks of her life
some people are so unbelievably unlucky
that they experience two devastating
hurricanes
before they're even a month old little
gabriella cohn was born on august 20th
2017 that same month hurricane harvey
rocked texas and louisiana
resulting in 125 billion dollars in
damage
and over 100 deaths once hurricane
harvey moved on from houston
gabriella's parents bruce and jessica
decided to head to their second home in
miami
it was then that they learned about
hurricane irma a disastrous deadly
category 4 hurricane just
off the coast of florida feedings at the
gas station and diaper changes in the
car the family of three
had to evacuate again forming in late
august
irma struck florida in early september
causing 84 deaths in that state alone
all told irma claimed the lives of at
least 134 people
the cones successfully evacuated miami
and drove to alabama where they waited
out the devastating storm in a hotel
young gabriela was given the nickname
storm owing to her penchant for
surviving them
at six pounds 15 ounces this little girl
is a survivor and will have a big story
to tell
one day when she gets older number two
violet jessup
it turns out quite a few people have
survived multiple shipwrecks
an irishman named william clark survived
the sinkings of both the titanic
and the empress of ireland george
beechum is said to have survived both
the titanic and the lusitania
but neither of these men can compete
with violet jessup
jessop was working as a stewardess on
the rms olympic
when in 1911 it collided with the hms
hawk
luckily there were no fatalities but the
following year she worked on the titanic
escaping on lifeboat 16 as it sank
god almighty during the first world war
she worked for the british red cross
and survived the sinking of the hmhs
britannic which hit a deep sea mine
she had to leap out of her lifeboat to
avoid the ship's propellers
despite all this jessup returned to work
for the white star line
she was given the nickname miss
unsinkable and lived to be 83 years old
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number one stomu yamaguchi this man has
experienced
true terror i have walked and crawled
through the bottom of hell
i should be dead but it was my fate to
keep on living and statistically
speaking
he may just be the unluckiest man in
history yamaguchi was in hiroshima on
business
when the enola gay dropped little boy on
the city the bomb detonated just three
kilometers from yamaguchi's location
resulting in radiation burns temporary
blindness and ruptured eardrums
solid matter began to come apart
releasing
untold quantities of energy
despite the horrific injuries yamaguchi
was back at work just three days later
in his hometown
of nagasaki while yamaguchi was
discussing the hiroshima bombing with
his boss
boxcar dropped fat man on the city the
second bomb was intended for the city of
kokura
but it was too cloudy so the plane moved
on to nagasaki
desperately short of fuel the crew
released the bomb despite
more clouds despite being just three
kilometers away from the bomb's
detonation
yes again yamaguchi was uninjured
he was officially recognized by the
japanese government as a survivor of
both atomic bombings
and he went on to live a long life dying
in 2010
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