I haven't been to the thread recently so not sure if you've seen this. Originally posted by Morjana.
SG1/SGA/Sanctuary - Martin Wood's daughter rescued:
From North Shore News (Vancouver, BC, Canada):
[Please follow the link for the complete article. Photo of Martin Wood and his daughter at the link above.]
West Van teen survives 38-hour life raft ordeal
Jane Seyd, North Shore News
Published: Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Bobbing in a small life raft more than 500 kilometres off the coast of Brazil, 18-year-old Natasha Carruthers tried to focus on the practical tasks at hand -- bailing water from the boat, collecting rain so they'd have something to drink, scanning the sky for signs of rescue.
It was a way to keep out the darker thoughts that threatened to crowd in during the 38 hours she spent in the Atlantic Ocean, not knowing if she and 63 other Canadian students, teachers and crew would ever be found.
Carruthers had watched the three-masted sailboat S.V. Concordia that had been both her home and classroom for the past six months sink beneath the waves after being hit by a freak windstorm.
"It was a really hard thing to realize," she told CBC's Rick Cluff Tuesday morning. "On a life raft, you're just a pinprick and you feel so small."
Nobody even knew if their automatic distress signal had been received before the ship went down after the communications room was flooded.
Carruthers didn't let despair enter her mind during her ordeal and tried to keep it away for others too, said her mom Diane Carruthers-Wood.
The story was big news in Canada but i had no idea MW's daughter was on board the ship that sank.
SG1/SGA/Sanctuary - Martin Wood's daughter rescued:
From North Shore News (Vancouver, BC, Canada):
[Please follow the link for the complete article. Photo of Martin Wood and his daughter at the link above.]
West Van teen survives 38-hour life raft ordeal
Jane Seyd, North Shore News
Published: Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Bobbing in a small life raft more than 500 kilometres off the coast of Brazil, 18-year-old Natasha Carruthers tried to focus on the practical tasks at hand -- bailing water from the boat, collecting rain so they'd have something to drink, scanning the sky for signs of rescue.
It was a way to keep out the darker thoughts that threatened to crowd in during the 38 hours she spent in the Atlantic Ocean, not knowing if she and 63 other Canadian students, teachers and crew would ever be found.
Carruthers had watched the three-masted sailboat S.V. Concordia that had been both her home and classroom for the past six months sink beneath the waves after being hit by a freak windstorm.
"It was a really hard thing to realize," she told CBC's Rick Cluff Tuesday morning. "On a life raft, you're just a pinprick and you feel so small."
Nobody even knew if their automatic distress signal had been received before the ship went down after the communications room was flooded.
Carruthers didn't let despair enter her mind during her ordeal and tried to keep it away for others too, said her mom Diane Carruthers-Wood.
The story was big news in Canada but i had no idea MW's daughter was on board the ship that sank.
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