The manufactured "Survivors" on TV are made even more phony when you consider the stories of someone who really survived a life-threatening event.  This is a great story.

 

One lived

Forty years after a Lake Huron gale sank his ship, the Ohioan who survived recalls the horrific disaster

Sunday, November 26, 2006

Bernard Rogers McCoy

FOR THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

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ROCK CREEK, Ohio — Whenever Dennis Hale looks out on the Great Lakes, he can’t help scanning the horizon. His eyes reflexively move back and forth, back and forth. Hale’s face is weathered, his hair gray. His rugged body packs 140 pounds less than it used to carry, but his eyes — those ever-watchful eyes — are just as blue.

 

bmccoy 2 @unl.edu

 

Copyright © 2006, The Columbus Dispatch

http://dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/11/26/20061126-B1-02.html

Powerful story.

lest we not forgetted, the Edmund Fitzgerald's anniversary was November 11th.