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more on them in a bit the human body is a weird and wonderful thing sometimes we seem soft and
malleable compared to all the other creatures in the world we're not well designed for life
in the wild and our young can't take care of themselves for years compared to some animals
which can be up and running around within hours of being born despite our apparent
fragility every once in a while comes a human who can survive against amazing odds
number 10. the drunken baker on the titanic charles joffin was the chief baker aboard
the titanic the ship sank and around 1 500 people drowned often joined them in the water and simply
swam around until morning when he was pulled out alive and well this prompted many people to wonder
how he survived in the exact same conditions which caused so many others to perish as it
happened the secret to drop in survival was that he was fully expecting not to survive
so in honor of his impending demise he drank like a fish not seawater mind you but alcohol
it was a baffling mix of circumstances that kept the man alive normally alcohol would make
you more susceptible to hypothermia however in life-threatening situations alcohol has another
unique effect on the human body it basically makes you ignore the physical danger that you're in
evidence has shown that victims of serious trauma things like stab wounds and gunshots are more
likely to survive the drunker they are likewise if you go to a hospital in the freezing cold you're
better suited to handle the effects on your body if you're smashed so as the titanic was going down
joffin sent his staff out to stock the lifeboats with food to keep people alive he then forced
people onto the lifeboats who were hesitant about going neglecting his own safety to ensure that he
saved as many people as possible as those left on the boat began to panic the closer they got
to suburgin joffin kept a cool head and continued to drink when water rushed around his feet he
started throwing deck chairs overboard so at least people would have temporary flotation devices
and then he went back to his cabin and got another drink word is that he was on the stern of the boat
when it actually broke in half he apparently made his way to the stern rail and just rode
the sinking ship down into the ocean once in the ocean it was cold shock that killed many of the
initial victims reacting to the intense shift in temperature and either drowning in a panic or
causing a quick loss of body temperature joffin just swam around a little and mostly decided to
tread water the alcohol in his system didn't make it warmer but it did make him face it more calmly
and that likely kept him alive 9. 9 11 survivor nobody needs to be told about september the
11th 2001 and while we all know the tragic loss of life that occurred that day what a few people have
heard of are the stories of those who survived against all odds in these incredible circumstances
one such survivor was pascal berserly a 34 year old structural engineer he had an office
on the 64th floor of the north tower where he was working at 10 am on september the 11th he tried to
evacuate along with the others but only reached the 22nd floor of the building when it began to
shake and the stairs moved underneath him he could hear things crashing to the ground above his head
and he ducked into a corner and hoped for the best the walls literally fell on top of him and he
experienced the sensation of falling remember he's on the 22nd floor of the north tower at this point
the next thing he remembers it was two hours later and he was on a giant slab of concrete
180 feet lower than where he started there was smoke dust and fire all around but he was alive
his leg hurt alerting him to the fact that somehow he was not dead yet he used his shirt as a mask
and started calling for help a nearby firefighter heard him rescuers pulled him from the fire and
debris and incredibly he only suffered a fractured foot the emotional damage was worse and it took
longer to deal with but his amazing story of survival was rare indeed as he was only one
of 42 people who somehow survived the collapse number 8. louis zamparini if you don't know the
name louis semperini you should he's one of the closest things we have to a real life superhero
the man's life story is so unbelievable that if someone like tom hardy played him in a biopic
you'd assume that the whole thing was just made up his life was in fact turned into a movie but he
was played by an actor named jack o'connell the movie was called unbroken directed by angelina
jolie known for being a bit of a troublemaker in his youth and apparently the leader of a
children's criminal empire in his early years he straightened himself out by the time he was in
high school to become one of california's best student athletes he was the youngest distance
runner to ever make the olympic team it's his service in the war that makes him stand out as
a bit of an action star though serving as a b-24 bombardier during the second world war his plane
nearly ran out of fuel on one run and just barely made it back to the midway atoll later his b-24
was shot up by japanese zeroes which killed most of the crew but the rest including zamparini made
it back to base alive despite the 600 bullet and shrapnel holes in the plane in 1943 zamparini's
luck ran out as his plane went down over the pacific three of the 11 crew members survived
zamparini along with his pilot and tail gunner he was lost at sea for 47 days but managed to survive
even after being strafed by zero pilots who shot the men afloat after drifting for an absolutely
mind-boggling 2000 miles the japanese navy found the castaways and he became a pow he was held
for two years and suffered torture before being released later in life even wrote a letter for
giving his former torturers for what they did 7. brian o'dell survived a supersonic ejection
if you've never heard of brah new dell and you're missing out on one of the most incredible survival
stories ever nudel is the only person in the world to ever survive a supersonic ejection from a jet
that means he was traveling faster than the speed of sound when he ejected from his craft odell was
traveling at nearly 800 miles per hour when a computer malfunction rendered the plane's
avionics useless they were in a 60 degree right turn at the time things went wrong and the jet
was headed straight for the ocean at supersonic speeds at 10 000 feet udell gave the order to
eject the handle was pulled at 6 000 feet co-pilot dennis white ejected at 3 000 feet
adele ejected at 1 500. the force was so intense it pulled his helmet and mask right off his head
his parachute deployed at 500 feet white died immediately upon ejection but hudel survived
albeit with incredible injuries doctors told him he'd likely never walk again he proved them wrong
though and within six months he was up on his feet in 10 months he was flying missions again 6.
the first man on the beaches of normandy when soldiers stormed the beach at normandy it must
have been an utterly chaotic scene many filmmakers have tried to recreate that moment in the years
since notably the incredibly violent and dramatic opening scene from the movie saving private ryan
but to have been there in real life would have been absolutely terrifying for each and every one
of those soldiers who still pushed on one thing that many people probably don't think about is
how in the midst of all that chaos one man had to be first one soldier had to be the first to set
boot on that beach his name was leonard schroeder on d-day 1944 captain schroeder was the first
american soldier to set foot on the beaches of normandy leading his company onto utah beach
schroeder was shot twice despite his injuries he took his men inland several miles and then
passed out from blood loss schroder never planned to be the first on the beach and he didn't really
rebel in the attention that he got later in life but the fact is he did have a later life to speak
of he survived the war returned home and lived all the way to the age of 90. all right we'll get back
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and now back to today's video number five adrian carten dewitt any time they call a person
unkillable you know that it has to be a good story that was the case with adrian carten duarte with
only one eye and one hand wyatt was in the boa war the first world war in the second world war
for his troubles he was shot in the face through the skull in the hip in the leg in the ankle and
in the ear and he survived it all in the first world war alone dwyer was severely wounded eight
times this was after his stint in the bar war where he was shot in the stomach and in the groin
when he had only one good hand to use he held hand grenades in it and used his teeth to pull the pins
out an artillery barrage had ruined the appendage and the doctor refused to amputate his fingers
so he tore them off himself in the second world war he was shot down over the mediterranean he
swam to shore and was captured by the italians he was in his 60s at this time and he escaped the
pow camp on numerous occasions despite being elderly one-handed and having only one eye
after the war he served as winston churchill's personal representative in china and eventually
died peacefully at the age of 83. 4. alexander selkirk the story of robinson crusoe is a
fantastic tale of a castaway full of adventure few people know it was actually based at least in part
around the story of alexander selkirk the scottish sailor was known to be a bit of a loud mouth and
have problems with authority so it might not have been too much of a surprise when he got
into a fight with his captain in the year 1704 telling the younger man to just leave him on a
nearby island the captain obliged and selkirk was given the old heave hi on the island he had access
to plenty of food in the form of feral goats as well as wild turnips not the plants armies of
rats would attack him at night and apparently he managed to domesticate a number of feral cats to
keep himself safe from them adapting to life as a castaway he forged a knife out of barrel
hoops and built two huts for himself one for cooking and one for sleeping at one point
while chasing a goat for food he fell off a cliff and would have died if not for the fact that he
actually landed on the goat selkirk was nearly captured twice by spanish sailors who
surely would have killed him since he was a scottish privateer he managed to hide in
a tree while his pursuers actually peed on it not noticing he was inside it it wasn't until
the year 1709 over four years after he'd been left on the island that he was finally rescued
3. the robertson family usually when it comes to survival at sea you'll hear the tale of one
incredible person who perseveres when it seems like all hope is lost and then it's the story of
the robertson family all of whom survived for 38 days in a nine-foot dinghy before being rescued
in 1971 the robertson family which consisted of dougal and lynn plus their children douglas
sandy and neal along with a friend named robin who planned to sail around the world things went
bad 200 miles from the galapagos islands when a pot of killer whales capsized the boat the family
took refuge in a life raft that deflated after 17 days before getting into the small dinghy they had
enough food for 10 days which consisted of a bag of onions a tin of biscuits 10 oranges 6 lemons
and half a pound of candy oh and the water was also full of sharks the family survived
38 days at sea in part because of the incredibly industrious thinking of lynne robertson a nurse
by trade lynne knew that drinking seawater was a death sentence for everyone the family had also
been trying to stay alive by drinking the blood from captured sea turtles but it wasn't enough
so lynn came up with a novel if incredible solution using repurposed rungs from a ladder lynn
created makeshift enema tubes the water from the bottom of the dinghy which was a mix of rain water
blood and turtle guts would have likely killed anyone trying to drink it but if you took it as
an enema you could still absorb the water without digesting any of the dangerous elements so that's
what they did by the time a japanese fishing boat rescued them no one had urinated for 20 days and
their tongues were so swollen that they couldn't even speak 2. the tree of life amazing survival is
not just limited to humans every so often nature pulls an amazing trick out from its hat such as
the case of the tree of life in bahrain this tree is thought to have been planted in 1582 and
it sits atop a sandy hill at bahrain's highest point all around the green and healthy looking
tree is an arid desert there is no water supply anywhere within sight and there doesn't seem to
be any water supply underground either obviously the tree is getting water from somewhere and it's
believed that the tree has incredibly deep roots which extend a great distance into the earth to a
depth of about 50 meters of course some people say that the tree was planted at the side of
the garden of eden and that's why it's still alive and those people are incorrect 1. ernest hemingway
most people associate ernest hemingway with the image of a man's man he was a writer sure but he
was also a larger-than-life character as well and throughout the course of his real life he
faced enough near-death experiences to pad out any fictitious tale beyond belief in the first world
war he was an ambulance driver with the red cross an austrian mortar nearly killed him ultimately
leaving him with an aluminium kneecap and 237 pieces of shrapnel by his account later he nearly
killed himself by shooting the calves of both legs while attempting to wrestle a shark of key west
but arguably his most famous brushes with death came not from one but two separate plane crashes
that he managed to walk away from and they happened in the span of two days while on safari
in africa in 1954 the pilot of hemingway's cessna crashed after trying to avoid a flock of birds
he his wife and the pilot spent the night in the jungle and then the next day got on another plane
which promptly crashed and caught fire hemingway was initially reported as having died in the crash
but then some time later he walked out of the jungle with a bunch of bananas and a bottle of gin