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My boat sank in the dead of night – and I had to save my seven-year-old son
theguardian.com ^ | 21 Nov 2023 | Tim Jonze

Posted on 11/20/2023 10:37:16 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper

A week or so before Maike Hohnen took the fishing trip that would change his life, he drove past a building site and spotted a sign that read “Free”. Nearby, on a patch of grass, were a hundred or so plastic buckets. Instinctively, Hohnen pulled over, grabbed eight or nine of them, and threw them in the back of his pick-up truck. “When I got home I put a couple in my boat,” he says. “I thought to myself, these will come in handy one day.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Outdoors
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1 posted on 11/20/2023 10:37:16 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

What an ordeal! Thank God (literally) that the little boy was fine!


2 posted on 11/20/2023 10:44:29 PM PST by Chicory
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Reminds me of the Reader’s Digest Drama in Real Life stories.

As a father who has been in dangerous situations with my son and survived, it brings tears and prayers of gratitude.


3 posted on 11/21/2023 2:31:16 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Note to self: make sure the battery is fully charged and the bilge pump works.


4 posted on 11/21/2023 2:39:06 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Did he lose any guns?


5 posted on 11/21/2023 3:07:58 AM PST by Craftmore
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Never understood the allure fishing has on some men. I guess whatever floats your boat...


6 posted on 11/21/2023 4:08:01 AM PST by chrisser (I lost my vaccine card in a tragic boating accident.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Make sure everything is fine with your boat, including the plug is in. I learn a lesson when my mechanics needed a drain plug for a customer's boat, so they used mine. I put my boat in the water and it started filling with water...

I was not happy with my mechanics the next day. Of course, I drove back to get a drain plug from one of our boats on display. My girlfriend's son thought it was funny that the boat was sinking. Looking back, it was funny...in the eyes of an 8 year old.

7 posted on 11/21/2023 5:17:27 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: chrisser

Being out in nature, away from everyone else, getting exercise, enjoying the diversity of nature, relaxing for a change, and catching your own meal instead of buying old fish all wrapped up in cellophane at the store.

Heck of a lot better than sitting home watching the booby tube or texting on the phone for hours on end.


8 posted on 11/21/2023 7:16:01 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Berlin_Freeper
They didn’t bother putting on life jackets, since it would have been too uncomfortable to sleep

9 posted on 11/21/2023 7:52:06 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
help, if it was coming, was taking its time. Hours passed. June means winter in Australia, and while the water was a merciful 21C that night, it’s not an ideal temperature to stay in for any length of time.

21 Celsius = 69 Fahrenheit. Pretty cold.

10 posted on 11/21/2023 7:54:28 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Jeff Chandler
They didn’t bother putting on life jackets, since it would have been too uncomfortable to sleep

As the coast guard explained to them later in the story, that actually saved their lives.

11 posted on 11/21/2023 7:55:33 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde
that actually saved their lives

There are life jackets which inflate on demand.

12 posted on 11/21/2023 9:24:08 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

The author should have pointed out their stupidity, then?

There’s really no subsititute for reading the story before criticizing.


13 posted on 11/21/2023 9:40:55 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

It is mere speculation that lack of life vests actually saved them. There is no way of knowing that. It’s along the lines of, “If you had been wearing a seat belt you would have been trapped in that burning car.”

My point is that it is idiotic and the very height of irresponsible hubris to cruise out to sea in a small boat and not put a life jacket on a child.


14 posted on 11/21/2023 10:09:27 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Have it your way. The Holy Spirit does not exist, and did not help them to make a “wrong” decision that may — may — have saved their lives.
15 posted on 11/21/2023 11:35:30 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

Are you saying that their decision not to put a life jacket on a seven-year-old nine miles out at sea was divinely inspired?


16 posted on 11/21/2023 11:39:52 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Yes, I am.


17 posted on 11/21/2023 12:37:53 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

“With great irresponsibility comes great power”


18 posted on 11/21/2023 12:47:10 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

So, you still haven’t read the coast guard’s opinion? Okay. You know better than the guy on the scene.


19 posted on 11/21/2023 1:58:50 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

God answered his prayers.

With loving and supportive parents, children are very resilient and the incidents that keep their parents awake at night, thinking of what “could” have happened, are often forgotten quickly by children. However, it depends on how secure children are in their home life. This father was always there for his son and the child counted on that fact.

There is an analogy here in the fact that believers in Christ are secure in the fact that they know that God will provide. Just as this child was secure in the knowledge that his father would do everything necessary to save him from harm and make sure they were rescued.


20 posted on 11/21/2023 2:16:22 PM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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