Thursday, March 4th, 2010 136 views
Almost exactly a year ago, four men shoved off on a chilly morning to spend a relaxing Saturday deep-sea fishing about 75 miles off the coast of Clearwater, Fla.
All were finely tuned athletes in their prime. Their powerful bodies were their livelihoods, their personas and their connection — they had trained together and become friends.
Nearly two days after they were expected back home, the invincibility of the modern-day warrior had been stripped to this: Three were dead. The lone survivor was Nick Schuyler, who grew up in Chardon and starred on its high school basketball team.
In “Not Without Hope,” out today, Schuyler writes that he hung on past endurance, haunted by the image of his mother standing over his 24-year-old corpse, laid out in a casket.
“This is the way I remember it,” he writes. “If I get some things wrong, it is due to the frailties of memory and the horror of what I experienced, not any intention to amend or deceive. This is what I recall after being in the water for forty-three hours, frigid and aching and scared, so hungry and thirsty that I felt I was eating my teeth. This is the best I can do after having three friends die, two of them in my arms.”
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010 46 views
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Coast Guard helicopter crashed Wednesday morning in remote Utah mountains after providing security at the Winter Olympics, and three people were airlifted to local hospitals, officials said.
One person was in critical condition and two others were in serious condition, said Sgt. Jeremy Hales of the Wasatch County sheriff’s office. Two others sustained minor injuries and were being brought out with the help of snowmobiles, he said.
The MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter was one of two traveling through the area en route to home base in Elizabeth City, N.C., after performing security duty at the Vancouver Games, said Dan Dewell, a spokesman for the Coast Guard’s 11th District in Alameda, Calif.
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010 59 views
The U.S. Geological Survey posted the latest minor earthquake that hit San Jose CA Bay Area.
Earthquake San Jose CA Details:
Magnitude: 3.4
Date-Time:
- Wednesday, March 03, 2010 at 20:36:33 UTC
- Wednesday, March 03, 2010 at 12:36:33 PM at epicenter
- Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location: 37.418°N, 121.761°W
Depth: 9.8 km (6.1 miles)
Region: SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
Distances:
- 8 km (5 miles) NE (45°) from Alum Rock, CA
- 12 km (7 miles) E (99°) from Milpitas, CA
- 15 km (9 miles) NE (53°) from San Jose City Hall, CA
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