![]() After her recovery, Lorna decided to take control of her own life and make a difference. The odds of surviving a massive heart attack are incredibly slim and yet Lorna was able to beat them. However, 45 minutes after her family was called to say goodbye, she was rushed to intensive care and eventually made a full and inexplicable recovery. Lorna, a former auxiliary nurse, suffered a massive heart attack and was given up for dead by doctors. Lorna Baillie’s story is one of the most incredible survival stories of people who made it against all odds. After being rescued, he was taken to a decompression chamber to help him adjust to the pressure change. Okene was eventually rescued by divers who had to cut a hole in the boat to free him. He was able to survive by drinking small amounts of Coca-Cola and urine, and eating biscuit crumbs from the boat’s galley. The air pocket Okene had found was the size of a bathtub and he had to remain submerged in water up to his neck for the entire duration of his ordeal. To their amazement, they discovered Okene alive inside the boat. However, after hearing tapping noises coming from inside the overturned vessel, they sent down a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to investigate. Rescuers initially believed that all 12 members of the crew had perished in the accident. Despite the odds, Okene was able to find an air pocket in the overturned boat, enabling him to survive for three days underwater. In 2013, the Nigerian cook was on board a tugboat that capsized in the Atlantic Ocean. Meticulously researched for more than five years,Karlsen Scott and Haug bring forth the truth behind this captivating, edge-of-your-seat, real-life survival story.Harrison Okene’s miraculous survival story is one of the most incredible tales of human endurance ever documented. Suffering from snow blindness and frostbite, more than sixty people of the Troms District risk their lives to help Baalsrud to freedom. However, they were betrayed, and a German boat attacked the cutter, creating a battlefield and spiraling Jan Baalsrud into the adventure of his life.The only survivor and wounded, Baalsrud begins a perilous journey to freedom, swimming icy fjords, climbing snow-covered peaks, enduring snowstorms, and getting caught in a monstrous avalanche. In late March 1943, in the midst of WWII, four Norwegian saboteurs arrived in northern Norway on a fishing cutter and set anchor in Toftefjord to establish a base for their operations. I sincerely believe we did," writes author Astrid Karlsen Scott.The 12th Man is the true story of Jan Baalsrud, whose struggle to escape the Gestapo and survive in Nazi-occupied Norway has inspired the international film of the same name. Since I was a Norwegian that was not good enough I had to find the truth. Then when we went to Norway to do a docudrama, people told us again and again that certain parts were pure fiction. Intrigue, suspense, and adventure."-The Norwegian American"I remember reading We Die Alone in 1970 and I could never forget it. The book that inspired the international film of the same name. ![]() ![]() A stunning story of heroism and survival during World War II. Meticulously researched for more than five years,Karlsen Scott and Haug bring forth the truth behind this captivating, edge-of-your-seat, real-life survival story. ![]() ![]()
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