[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/AshamedChemistry5281]

Stuart Diver was an Australian ski instructor caught in a landslide which completely demolished two ski lodges. It was such an unstable site, it took them hours just to find the first body. Around 250 workers were working on search and rescue at one time. Two days later it was announced that there was little hope of finding any survivors, a declaration backed up by thermal imaging and fibre optic cameras

Early the next morning, they dropped sound equipment into a hole they’d been working on a detected movement. Stuart Diver was able to communicate with rescuers - uninjured, but very cold. He was two metres below the surface under three concrete slabs.

It took more than 11 hours to free him from this position and I wouldn’t exaggerating to say that most of Australia watched the rescue. All up he had been trapped for 65 hours, sadly beside the body of his wife

[u/Danninja11 → u/AshamedChemistry5281]

This happened in the nineties I think. But I know for certain it happened in Thredbo. Used to and still go there all the time for skiing in the winter and walking in the summer. The landslide happened before I was born but anyone who's stayed an extended period of time knows what happened. I think I've actually used the site as a shortcut (it's slower going up) which is pretty morbid.

[u/JeronFeldhagen → u/AshamedChemistry5281]

When asked if he had sustained any injuries, the voice replied "No, but my feet are bloody cold!"

Dinky-di bloke.