A Collection of Insane Survival Stories 

Yea man! Its a nice contrast to all the tragic stuff lol. awesome channel!

I loved these stories! I hope you can make this a series! It is nice to hear inspiring stories too! Thank you for all of your hard work and great videos!

Man I have a story that could very well fit into the survival series, but I can't even begin to imagine how to write down everything that happened to send you the email, it was all so quick and my memory has been hiding the events away over the years

Dude these are fantastic, you are my new favorite channel. Better than Ballen! Better stories and more interesting topics

Great video as always. But a correction: at 9:18, you mention lidocaine is a sedative. It isn’t in any way. It’s the same thing as a dentist’s novocaine (and some dentists now use lidocaine instead), and is for numbing a specific site while staying wide awake. If she had taken a sedative, there’s a good chance her procedure wouldn’t have ended as well as it did. I wouldn’t trust my hand to do any cuts on anything more than like, a single tiny anti anxiety pill.

Good luck with that. Just like ppl merging on freeway. They MUST merge over THIS INSTANT. Can't slowly drive along the merge lane for a few more seconds????

You get so used to being behind the wheel it becomes like second-nature. Please ! - do not ever-ever underestimate how close - and mind-numbingly quick absolute disaster is to you every single moment you are behind the wheel of any vehicle. Nothing should occupy any of your time while you are driving. "OH-come'on, - I wasn't doing a crossword puzzle or anything, - it was only a new disc, or grabbing a few more fries, or making sure my makeup was alright, or sending a real-quick text, or just reaching under the seat for some Kleenex, or, - I was only ... ". The 'window' that remains open between comfort and absolutely life-altering catastrophe is only ever as large as your full and singular attention to the road is respected.

@@user-up8jx3mt6j : Well stated. Thanks!

Or diving head first in water

@@DecrepitBidenfirst of all you don’t “slowly” merge into traffic! You need to be doing the same speed or faster than the traffic your merging into!

I grew up in Buckie (Moray Coast, NE Scotland) most of my childhood and spent a fair amount of time around boats between my granddad and late (step) dad, and even being in your pleasure boats that aren’t much bigger than fishing boats, it’s pretty damn hard spotting things in the water! Even on a clear day the sea is just too vast to spot things tbh!

@@ZombieSazza Well, as someone told me years ago, part of why the old boats had so many lookouts is that maintaining the same PoV for a period of time lets you notice things you can't see if you're scanning the horizon. It's all about absorbing information.. the sea is vast and that means you have a lot to process. Oddly someone who's just absentmindedly staring off into the distance is sometimes more likely to see a person than someone actively looking. that's because you're NOT trying to process a large area all at once and giving your mind time to process it in parts.

Agreed. I can hardly believe that he was spotted in the ocean. Incredibly lucky fellow.

It wasn't his time yet

It is. But maybe it helped that they were looking for him, particularly.

Me too!

It happens….. a lot.

@@joecoastie99 You would think there would be something higher to prevent people from accidentally falling or being pushed off.

The cynic in me can't help but wonder if he had actually won an evening of drinks, and whether that first one might have been doped to maximize the ships profits. In any case, I too, find these types of events particularly interesting, and nice contrast to that similar story about the poor tic tok kid's tragedy. PS: a word of advice to would be cruise ship goers: if the drinks on whatever cruise you're booked on, aren't covered by the price of admission, then please do yourself a huge favor by cancelling that nonsense, and save up for one where the amenities are comped. All but the most staunch disciplinarians among us won't be able to 'just not drink', when confronted with the reality of being surrounded 24/7 by drunkards, strategically placed drinks, and a crew that is likely trained upsell you on them. As a good amount of their profitability is tied up in people's lack of ability to resist social pressure and cave into buying the overpriced products. Oh, and should you be one such disciplinarian, your reward for your high standard is to then get to have all of the fun of your typical designated driver on a night out with the boys (which if you haven't had the honor, is not fun, at all, ever)! Just, don't...

@@gabecollins5585you don’t want anything to interfere with an escape while its sinking. I can’t remember the name of the channel but another RU-vidr goes over similar stories and the canvas tops on duckboats that sank are absolutely killers on what would otherwise be an open top vehicle

i am actually more interested in this stories but too bad channels just cover tragedies and horror type ones.

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I beleive that is the drug that allowed some early doctors to operate on themselves in the very early days of surgery using drugs like lidocaine. One guy legit did his own appendix removal which still blows my mind.

Imagine sticking a needle into your own breast.... even when numbed, wow that's gotta be terribly uncomfortable

which the term for is "analgesic"

That's a good call. We don't need a bunch of people sucking down all the sunburn lotions with aloe and lidocaine in hopes to get high! It won't work, and aloe (on its own) tastes like slimy sh*t... ;o)

@@user-ik7vm1kt6qI pulled my own tooth once.

I hope you are now cancer free and remain so, God bless you

I came here to comment about Jerri, I too like you have been in the same awful situation & unless you've had biopsies you can't believe what an incredibly brave woman she was. Sending all the very best to you my lovely.

I hope you all can get and stay well❤ im so sorry that you need to go through this..

And so are you . God be with you. And good luck. Stay strong.

Obviously you've ever heard of something called a man. Who have to things like this each and every day.

A Collection of Insane Survival Stories

Not as amazing as me, I tell you what. What

No.

more likely he attempted suicide, but changed his mind after bobbing in the ocean for hours, then felt too ashamed to tell anyone.

@@tomflavel7312that or someone attempted to kill him by throwing him overboard by pushing him. The rails on cruise boats aren’t 2 feet high, he wouldn’t just fall over the rails from losing consciousness while walking or standing. Definitely wasn’t an accident either way.

@@reiddutchess9955 Nope, no value pushing him, he got drunk and sad then tossed himself off

I believe the people who say he jumped. If he was really unconscious he wouldn't have woken up floating in the ocean, that just doesn't happen. You fall in water while unconcious, you drown. He obviously wasn't wearing a life preserver if he was "seconds away from drowning" at the end either.

Jesus christ

@@Aldgri WHERE?

I've seen that one covered on at least 3-4 different channels already. But sometimes someone will come along and cover an older event from a fresh perspective with details that others missed. So I say go for it too.

​​@@DavidautofullRainforest I think, but I don't remember precisely where. Her parents were researchers or something so she was raised there and grew up learning how to survive. As for the deity, well I guess you'd have to ask the girl that fell out of the plane whether she caught a glimpse of him or not. And the moral of the story is either that you're not the only smartass in the crowd or that you should never ask an open-ended question. I'll let you choose. 😌

What??? Omgggg. That'd be an excellent topic👍

You ever hear the story of ashley judd? Broke her hip in the jungle and took days to get her out and to a hospital.

It was the drink. 100%

ever hear of blackout drunk ? and yes you can pass out from too much alcohol.

Yeah, I was wondering if he was drugged. Most modern cruise ships have railings at least 45 inches high. Was he 'helped' over the railing?

When human trafficking occurs it’s kids and young women. I don’t think men and older women are targets -despite the fact that every middle aged woman I know on Facebook is terrified they’re going to be nabbed every time they go to Walmart.

​@@Big_Texthere have been lots of cases of young men being targets they're just not publicized the same unfortunately

Also plenty of drink-spiking so more risk of falling (or "falling") overboard if you end up outside

Thats why i dont go on a cruise all by myself. You go overboard? Game over.

There's a better chance he thought it would be fun but j2ver crossed his mind that a) no one would see abs b) its illegal. So saying he actually went over would have made him liable for all of the costs of search and rescue.

I was just thinking the same thing

Yeah. I motherfucking agree fellers

Those railings are built to prevent accidental falls even by the drunkest of cruise goers or people would fall over all the time. It requires intent, from that person or from someone else, to lift up and over to get over the rail.

100% the reason he "can't remember": thought it would be fun to jump in the water but no one noticed AND he found out it was illegal so "I dOnT kNoW wHaT HaPpEnED OffICeR! I OnLy HaD 2 DrINks!" Is the call of every DUI everywhere

@Loralanthalas I think it might have been a suicide attempt that he doesn’t want to admit.

@@blacksapphirerainmaybe his drink was spiked and that made him act irrationally?

Good idea.