#including the third mate who is like did anyone make a mayday call and no one did and hes like we need rescue right now
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i forgot that shipwreck documentaries make me cry somehow
#kai rambles#imagine having a special interest or hyperfixation on something not either bizzare depressing or concerning#ive watched so many of them before so like im rewatching them#and the only one i remember crying about was one in australia i think where i had to call my mom after just to hear her voice#but apparently disasters at sea: ignition point can also make me fucking cry#just like#there was a series of explosions on their ships#right?#and the ships going down and its on fire so everyones planning to abandon ship#including the third mate who is like did anyone make a mayday call and no one did and hes like we need rescue right now#so this guy goes up the bridge of this burning sinking ship and makes a mayday call to the coast guard and when the coast guard answers#and asks for coordinates#he doesnt give them#because hes already gone#because hes climbed on top of the bridge/wheelhouse to release the epirb which transmits your exact location to the coast guard#and continues to do so after its been released and all that#and then he comes down and he sees three guys who are planning to jump now and he stops them#because he has wits about him enough to realise the ship is sinking and hence you can jump from a lower point which will be better for you#and mind you these guys dont have immersion suits they have the clothes theyre wearing and lifejackets#and this is in the north atlantic#and so they jump when he tells them to and his plan is effective#and they manage to swim over to the lifeboat before hypothermia sets in and he pulls them in#and theyre drifting because its not a steerable one but he manages to save two othwr guys by getting them into the lifeboat#and one of them is laying on the floor barely conscious#but the coast guard arrive and theyre saved and the rescue swimmer risks his life to save them#because hes breathing in ethanol as hes swimming and once hes got them all up he needs to rehook himself but he sees four hooks not one#but like all six of them survived#mostly because of the third mate whose name is Lujon i believe#and he got an award recognising everything he did because there are five me alive solely because of him#but at the end he says something about thanking god for saving him every day and wow that just turned on the goddamn taps for me
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