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Deep Survival..Who Lives, Who Dies, Why

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Deep Survival

April 03, 2008

Deep Survival By Laurence Gonzales
#3 Emotional Connections
Text by Contributing Editor Laurence Gonzales, author of the book Deep Survival
I once worked on an assignment for this magazine with a photographer named Mark Gamba. Mark was an avid steep creek boater. He and I were knocking around on an Army base in Oregon, watching helicopters take off and land, when he told me a story about getting caught in a strainer. A strainer is a tree that?s fallen across a river, creating a network of branches that can trap paddlers. Once someone is sucked into the branches, it?s a pretty dodgy business to get out. Mark was pinned, and each time he managed to pull himself up, he caught a breath and was sucked under again. The endgame was obvious: The exertion would eventually exhaust him. Then he?d drown.
I asked what he did next.

?I thought of my son,? he said. ?I wanted to see him again.? And with one last surge of adrenaline, he vaulted up and over the log.

Continue reading this story ****
 
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I like the psychology of how and why some people live and others die when
put in life threatening circumstances. I was trained in scuba diving by an ex-Seal and he gave me the mental toughness to survive when things went wrong . And they did inevitably go wrong. There are learned tools that can be applied to many life situations. That can save your life.
But.
Just plain bad luck or ill timed decision will get you killed.
So. Think about things before you test yourself. Do everything you can to give yourself an edge.
 
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