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| | Post New Topic | | Miracles in 2009 | Views: 361 | | Jan 16, 2009 9:39 am | | Miracles in 2009 | # | 
Carole Brown | |
January 15, 2009
"Miracle on the Hudson"
155 lives saved! as a coolheaded pilot guides a disabled airliner to safety.
Pilot Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III viewed as a hero, along with the crew and rescue teams.
It is evident that prayer, positive attitude and experience bring miracles to our every day life.
Rise n Shine to days full of miracles.
Post all your personal and news worthy miracles that bring hope and faith to 2009.
Private Reply to Carole Brown | | Jan 17, 2009 3:49 am | | re: Miracles in 2009 | # | 
Barbara Haynes | | Yep...this was BEAUTIFUL!!!! I love listening to the passengers stories. God Bless them all! Everything was in divine order! The pilot did a GREAT job, as did everyone else, including all the rescue people.
Private Reply to Barbara Haynes | | Jan 18, 2009 1:07 pm | | re: Miracles in 2009 | # | 
Ilka Flood | | A Wing, a prayer, an absolute genius pilot and a bunch of Guardian Angels. If anyone ever doubted that miracles do exist they should be believers now.
God bless them all!
Ilka
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Private Reply to Ilka Flood | | Jan 28, 2009 3:32 am | | re: Miracles in 2009 | # | 
Urvashi Basak | | Infact a couple of days after this incident India also witnessed a similar incident when an Indian pilot saved all the passengers and crew from accident of an airplane hit by birds minutes after it had taken off!
Private Reply to Urvashi Basak | | Jan 29, 2009 12:31 pm | | re: re: Miracles in 2009 | # |
Barbara Haynes | | Wow, that is amazing too...thank you for sharing.
Private Reply to Barbara Haynes | | May 06, 2009 9:41 pm | | re: re: re: Miracles in 2009 | # | 
Susan Graves | | Lost 3 year old boy found after almost 3 days. What a wonderful story.
Reminds us how fast toddlers can wander away.
http://www.fox2now.com/ktvi-missing-madison-county-toddler-arcadia-050609,0,3640321.story
Susan
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Private Reply to Susan Graves | | Aug 31, 2009 10:56 am | | re: re: re: re: Miracles in 2009 | # |
Carole Brown | |
Survival story: Rescued boaters detail 8 harrowing days at sea
08:30 AM CDT on Monday, August 31, 2009
By Courtney Zubowski & Kevin Peters / 11 News
HOUSTON – Three Texas boaters who were missing at sea for more than a week were reunited with their families Saturday night.
A passing pleasure boat found Curtis Hall, 28, Tressell Hawkins, 43, and James Phillips, 30, sitting on top of their capsized catamaran 180 miles from land.
The men were found a day after the Coast Guard called off its official search, having scoured approximately 86,000 square miles of ocean with no sign of the boaters.
The men had set out for an overnight fishing trip on Phillips’ boat last Friday.
Phillips said everything seemed to be going fine until they tied themselves to an oil rig and went to sleep that evening.
The men said they woke up in the middle of the night to find that their boat was taking on water and tipping over.
“I was moving around on the bean bag and it just started floating out from up under me and I really didn’t think anything about it because I thought was just on a boat and it was shaking around,” Hawkins said. “Once I put my leg down and the water actually reached up to my knee, I just kind of jumped up.”
Hawkins alerted the others, and they immediately attempted to remove the water from the boat, but it was too late.
“We tried to extract the water out as fast as we could. Once we tried to start the boat up and just move it, to have the water just surge out the back,” Hawkins said. “In just like 5 seconds, it just started tilting and just rolled right over.”
The three fisherman jumped ship as the boat flipped. They scrambled back on top of the capsized hull, terrified but unharmed.
The boaters were found sitting on top of the capsized 23-foot-Sea Chaser Catamaran owned by James Phillips of Blessing.
“It’s just shock. You gotta go through the motions, and we’re like, ‘Where’s the flares?’ And Curt just jumps out and jumps back in the water, swims under the boat, comes back out with a bag of life jackets and flares, you know. And we went to shooting flares off, just trying to get people’s attention. And the sun came up, and the journey began,” Phillips said.
It would be a long journey.
The men said they survived by sharing peanut butter crackers and fresh water they’d stored on the catamaran. They used floating debris to shield themselves from the sun.
Hall said that day after day, they tried to flag down other vessels for help, to no avail.
“We seen a ton of boats, we seen some helicopters and we tried flagging everybody we could, and it was just like, I guess not our time to go home yet. I mean, they’d come straight at us, and we’d by like, ‘Hey!’ … And there they’d go. I was like, well, you know, the good man above –either He’s teaching us a lesson or showing us something” Hall said.
When help finally did arrive, the men knew it was a miracle.
Their rescuers came Saturday on a pleasure boat called the Affordable Fantasy.
A small Coast Guard crew met the Affordable Fantasy about 50 miles offshore, where Hall, Phillips and Hawkins were transferred.
They were reunited with their families at Coast Guard Station Port Aransas Saturday night.
Phillips said anyone that really knew them knew they would make it.
“Everybody pulled together. Everybody in this world that pulled together for us, we’re just grateful. My wife, I mean, when [the Coast Guard] told her they was calling [the search] off, I’m just glad I wasn’t there to see that day, because I know he got an earful. She knew we were alive. Everybody that knew us, they knew we were still alive. We was coming home,” Phillips said.
Once ashore, the men were treated to a hearty welcome-home meal of rib-eye steaks, potatoes and salad.
“It was a miracle. It was a long eight days. I mean, it was just every day, me and Curt and Tressell, we would just sit there and just pray. I kept telling them. I said, look, about after the sixth day I said God must be fixing some people onshore because I know we’re fixed out here. I said, but they need to hurry up. Whatever He’s teaching them at the house, they need to hurry up, because we were ready to come home,” Phillips said.
After their ordeal, Phillips said the three men will be friends for life.
But will they ever go back out on a boat again?
“Absolutely,” Phillips said.
Carole
Private Reply to Carole Brown | | Aug 31, 2009 2:18 pm | | re: re: Miracles in 2009 | # |
Susan Graves | | Carole
That was just amazing they had some, food, water and the catamaran stayed afloat.
Susan Graves
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Private Reply to Susan Graves | | Sep 06, 2009 11:59 am | | re: re: re: re: re: Miracles in 2009 | # |
Barbara Haynes | | WOW! What an amazing story...want to go fishing?
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