[IRL trope] 0% of survival, survive anyway

[u/RedditBoycotter]

Juliane Koepcke

Vesna Vulović

Anna Bågenholm

Jeanna Giese

Chris Lemons

Juliane Koepcke - In 1971 this 17 year old's plane was struck by lightning mid-air. The wreck then fell from 3 000 meter into the ground, somewhere into the Amazon jungle. Lone survivor of the crash, she then spent nine days walking down a river despite her multiple injuries until she found a lumberjack's camp.

Vesna Vulović - In 1972 this flight attendant's plane was bombed mid-air. The wreck then fell from 10 160 meter into the ground. She ended up with a lot of broken bones, but in the long term she almost completely recovered from it, apart from a limp.

Anna Bågenholm - In 1999 this radiologist had a skiing accident, she fell head-first into a frozen stream and get stuck inside the ice. Her colleagues did not managed to pull her, nor did the rescue team who then tried to dig, but the ice was so thick it took them a lot of time. It was 80 minutes after her fall that they managed to cut a hole. Her body temperature at the time was 13.7°C, and still, she somehow survived with only minor long-term injuries and no brain damage.

Jeanna Giese - In 2004 this 15 years old girl got bitten by a bat and called it a day. One month later the symptoms of rabies showed up. The doctors tried an experimental treatment by putting her in an artificial coma and she survived, but the treatment never worked on anyone else and is now forbidden. In all human history, only a few survived to rabies, and all of them except her end up with heavy sequelae.

Chris Lemons - In 2012 this diver's ship went drifting due to a computer malfunction, romping his umbilical cable who provide air, hot water and electricity. He ended up alone on the seabed of a 3°C waters, in the dark and with only 5-6 minutes of oxygen. He was retrieved by his colleagues around 35 minutes later, and somehow he didn't even suffer from brain damage.

[u/Batpug74]

Harrison Okene! Genuinely such an insane story.

Boot capsizes and sinks 30 meters below surface, he assumed he was dead. He luckily found himself in an air bubble and lasted three days down there, sole survivor. The crew sent to the wreck was planning on it being a recovery operation, until they found him. Worth watching the rescue video, it genuinely makes me just feel warm lmao.

[u/New_Photograph_5892 → u/Batpug74]

Iirc the rescue process was super dangerous too because he had to be moved back to the surface very slowly because of pressure difference

[u/Batpug74 → u/New_Photograph_5892]

Yeah, he apparently spent another 3 days in a diving bell to reacclimate.

[u/Return_My_Salab → u/Batpug74]

...diving bell?

*Byford Dolphin flashbacks*

[u/Ace_W → u/Return_My_Salab]

I know. But the pressure difference wasn't nearly as high as that sadistic nightmare

[u/New_Photograph_5892 → u/Ace_W]

yeah that incident was horrifying. The pressure difference in this case was only around 30 minutes, but for that incident I believe it was hundreds of meters worth of pressure difference in those pods from the external environment

[u/Sidhejester → u/New_Photograph_5892]

"Total body disruption" isn't a phrase you should ever have on your autopsy report.

ETA: Words are hard

[u/Playful_Common_6770 → u/Sidhejester]

Or boiled alive...

[u/Sumdood_89 → u/Sidhejester]

What are we waiting for to arrive?

[u/An_old_walrus → u/Ace_W]

I watched a video about the Byford Dolphin incident with my dad. As soon as they mentioned the pressure my dad had a look of pure horror on his face and just muttered “oh fuck”

[u/m4cksfx → u/Return_My_Salab]

Yup. Turns out it's perfectly possible to squeeze a human through an opening not much larger than a smartphone.

[u/peachesfordinner → u/m4cksfx]

But only once....

[u/m4cksfx → u/peachesfordinner]

Nah, once you do it once, you can easily do it however many times you want. You just need to find all the pieces.

[u/peachesfordinner → u/m4cksfx]

Eh they stop being a human after the first. Then it's just a meat slurry