From The-Sun.com (Sept. 29, 2020):
Angelica Gaitan, 46, was found unconscious and suffering from hypothermia off the coast of Colombia after being in the sea for eight hours.
She was discovered by fisherman Rolando Visbal and a pal floating 1.2 miles off the town of Puerto Colombia on the Atlantic side of the country at around 6am on Saturday.
It reported her first words after being rescued were “I was born again, God did not want me to die” after she had jumped into the sea following mental health problems.
She was brought ashore where locals tended to her before she was taken to hospital.
Angelica was then reunited with her family as she told investigators what had happened to her since disappearing two years ago.
The Carribean sea where she was in is home to dangerous sharks, including tiger sharks and bull sharks.
During her time in the sea she said the creatures circled her as she drifted in and out of consciousness.
“I knew there are many sharks in that area and, I don’t know if in a hallucination I felt that a fin passed very close to me, but it didn’t stop,” she said.
But then with time beginning to run out, she had a miraculous stroke of luck when she was spotted by the fisherman, who initially thought she was a log until she waved her hand to summon help.
Dramatic video shows the moment Rolando and a friend known only as Gustavo came across Angelica, who appears to be completely unresponsive.
Rolando told Colombia’s Caracol Radio that they nearly didn’t go out fishing that day after problems with his boat’s engine delayed an earlier trip.
“If we hadn’t had the problem with the spark plug on Friday, we would have gone fishing that day and the woman would be dead at sea,” he said.
“Gustavo warned me to be careful with the trunk and I began to turn about 15 degrees to the right, then to my surprise the trunk moved. I thought it was something supernatural.”
The video shows Angelica being dragged towards the boat in a lifebuoy the pair had thrown to her and which she had used her last ounce of energy to put on.
The pair attempt to have a conversation with her and give her water but Angelica begins to cry as the video comes to an end.
Rolando said Angelica didn’t say anything when they hauled her on to deck and was so weak he believed she would have drowned if she had spent any longer in the sea.
“So it turns out that I didn’t catch any fish that day either, but I fished a life. I think this was God’s purpose.”
Mystery continues to surround exactly what happened during the time her family lost contact with her, with her account of fleeing domestic abuse at the hands of her partner disputed by her daughter. [read more]
A miracle indeed. Glad she was rescued in time.
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