Hola Amigos,
Till now you read stories which were funny, stupid (bike accident) and as well as a little bit dangerous (horse accident). The next story is a story about surviving.
It was a weekend and I wanted to see some really beautiful nature islands in the Caribbean sea. Therefore you have to take a “speed boat” (capacity for ~ 40 people) to go to this islands. It takes about 45 min to reach them. I can tell you it was really beautiful. In the middle of the sea exists a group of 27 island where you can find the real nature, blue sea and a lot of jellyfishes. Perfect, I couldn’t go into the blue sea because of the jellyfishes. Nevertheless all of us stayed on the island and enjoyed the sun as well as the nature (of course with a beer).
We stayed there approximately 4 hours. At around 3 p.m. the weather changed very fast so it looked like that we get really bad weather. We started to leave the island and the sea was very rough. I got only a place at the end of the boat and I didn’t know that this place was one of the worst. Based on the rough sea I was 30 min full of sea water. My eyes burned (because of the salt water) and I felt a little bite cold. Our boat conductor was really experienced and shipped us fast and save through the sea. I was happy when I could see the dry land at the horizon. The captain took a different way back and till now I don’t know why. The sea was still very rough as suddenly the captain slowed down the boat. One passenger was screaming: Un perro, un perro (A dog, A dog)!!! Of course I didn’t believe (also with my little Spanish) that there will be a dog in the sea so far away from the dry land. So I thought the people meant that there is a seal. I was looking for the seal and you wouldn’t believe what 40 people saw in the water ==> it was a dog who was fighting in the rough sea for his life. The captain turned back the boat and tried to reach the dog to rescue him. It was very difficult because the boat was quite big and the sea very rough. At the end of the boat someone from the crew tried to grab the dog. The guy almost grabbed him when the dog came very close (I think the dog was already in the propeller) to the propeller of the ship.
The dog was lucky because the crew member grabbed the animal (was unhurt). The dog was really exhausted and was lying totally tired on the boat. I’m sure that he couldn’t even see where he was (near or far away of the safe dry land) but he fought for his life and didn’t give up.
There are so many fortuities in your life because what happened if (stupid question!!!) we would go another route back we would never find the dog. But this was destiny for the dog and in his situation. He was very far away from the safe dry land without any change to get rescued but he didn’t stop to fight for his life.
You will never know what will happen in your life but I have learned one thing:
Never give up even the situation looks hopeless! The life is full of surprises.
Saludos de Bogota
Jürgen
July 23, 2009 at 5:06 pm |
Great story!