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'I Jumped Off a Bridge to End My Life But Was Saved - by a Sea Lion'
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| 5 March 2015
| John Shammas
Posted on 03/05/2015 8:39:40 PM PST by nickcarraway
Kevin Hines was battling mental illness when he tried to commit suicide, but believed the sea creature kept him afloat and saved his life
A man who was suffering from mental illness and depression has revealed how a sea lion saved his life after he tried to kill himself.
Kevin Hines jumped off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge in 2000, but against all the odds he managed to survive.
Hines told how his depression had led him to see life through a "bit of tunnel vision," leading him to think he had to die.
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He told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: "[I was] in the water desperately trying to stay alive and stay afloat, [and] I guess you would call it a mammal began swimming beneath me and I'm thinking, 'Oh man, a shark is about to devour me'."
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(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bridge; california; goldengatebridge; marinebiology; sanfrancisco; sealion; shark; suicide
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To: Vendome; shibumi; Salamander
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/05/2015 8:40:54 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/05/2015 8:43:43 PM PST
by
dalereed
To: nickcarraway
How does a guy who wanted to end his life get so much publicity for not ending it? If you want to go, get it right the first time!
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posted on
03/05/2015 8:45:18 PM PST
by
Fungi
(Evolution is piece by piece over billions of years. At what point did a precursor become a human?)
To: nickcarraway
Ah, the old ‘jump off a bridge and get saved by a sea lion’ ploy.
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posted on
03/05/2015 8:45:33 PM PST
by
Ken H
(DILLIGAF)
To: nickcarraway
I was just reading a story where a Manatee stayed with a dog who’d fallen into the water and had been clinging to a sea wall for hours.
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posted on
03/05/2015 8:46:30 PM PST
by
Salamander
(Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
To: cripplecreek
“SEALED his fate”
ouch LOL!
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posted on
03/05/2015 8:52:20 PM PST
by
TEXOKIE
(We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/05/2015 8:54:56 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: nickcarraway
Something fishy about this one
To: HonkyTonkMan
A serious note here, I believe this man and I think it was God who sent that sea lion.
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posted on
03/05/2015 9:13:19 PM PST
by
erkelly
To: Salamander
That’s the story I want to read... send me a link, please.
kg/nancy
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posted on
03/05/2015 9:19:12 PM PST
by
krunkygirl
(force multiplier in effect...)
To: nickcarraway
The sea lion told him Exodus 20:13?
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posted on
03/05/2015 9:23:13 PM PST
by
the_daug
To: nickcarraway; Vendome; Salamander
I think he’s lion about the whole thing.
But time will tell.
We’ll sea.
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posted on
03/05/2015 9:45:54 PM PST
by
shibumi
("Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way")
To: cripplecreek
To: nickcarraway
After i saw what a sea lion did to a penguin on snoop doggs plizzanet earth, this guy might think twice
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posted on
03/05/2015 9:50:43 PM PST
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: Salamander
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posted on
03/05/2015 9:52:03 PM PST
by
Yaelle
To: krunkygirl
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posted on
03/05/2015 9:59:33 PM PST
by
Salamander
(Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
To: erkelly
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posted on
03/05/2015 10:02:24 PM PST
by
Salamander
(Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
To: Yaelle
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posted on
03/05/2015 10:03:15 PM PST
by
Salamander
(Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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