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| Um, I got blown off the boat. I grabbed the boat, right? Got back on again took about three strokes and got blown off the boat again and it kept going? So, there goes my boat like a rolling cigar. I’m wearing neoprene all over and a PFD. So I’m okay and I swam for the nearest piece of land and I got there and I realized it was straight up and down. Can't go there. I think I saw a little of beach back there. So, swimming along that wall you get thrown around like a ragdoll. And I didn't have my PFD snug so it got my chin pretty hard. So I got to the beach and I thought, Oh god, there's a beach and I approached it and it's a picket fence of rocks between me and the beach. | Um, I got blown off the boat. I grabbed the boat, right? Got back on again took about three strokes and got blown off the boat again and it kept going? So, there goes my boat like a rolling cigar. I’m wearing neoprene all over and a PFD. So I’m okay and I swam for the nearest piece of land and I got there and I realized it was straight up and down. Can't go there. I think I saw a little of beach back there. So, swimming along that wall you get thrown around like a ragdoll. And I didn't have my PFD snug so it got my chin pretty hard. So I got to the beach and I thought, Oh god, there's a beach and I approached it and it's a picket fence of rocks between me and the beach. | ||
| - | Okay, so I'm on my back. Pushing like this with my feet in front of me - this is like, yeah, this is just like white water. So there I am kind of ooooooh and this BIG wave picks me up right over the rocks and lands me on the beach in a standing position. I couldn’t talk. There was a hiker on one of the driftwood logs. And he says - “Where the hell did you come from”? I couldn't tell him. I tried. I couldn't tell him. So, he grabbed me and put me on the sand saying the sand’s warm, you know, you need to warm up. And I got so i could sit up and here comes a motor boat and it was the Coast Guard - they had a megaphone and said - “We're looking for Mike, are you Mike?” | + | Okay, so I'm on my back. Pushing like this with my feet in front of me - this is like, yeah, this is just like white water. So there I am kind of ooooooh and **this BIG wave picks me up right over the rocks and lands me on the beach in a standing position**. I couldn’t talk. There was a hiker on one of the driftwood logs. And **he says - “Where the hell did you come from”?** I couldn't tell him. I tried. **I couldn't tell him.** So, he grabbed me and put me on the sand saying the sand’s warm, you know, you need to warm up. And I got so i could sit up and here comes a motor boat and it was the Coast Guard - they had a megaphone and said - **“We're looking for Mike, are you Mike?”** |
| - | So, I shook my head. Yeah. And I got to where I could talk and a couple minutes later here comes a helicopter. Guy puts out flares and the copter lands, all right. One of the guys jumps out, he's the medic, right, jumps out and he runs over to me he's asked me a question to see if I know where I am. Okay. Okay, “well we're gonna take you to San Francisco General Hospital to the emergency department, they'll take real good care of you……ummm, I said - that's okay, that’s alright (I don’t need to go to the hospital). The hiker says “It took me 3 hours to hike into here and I have hiking boots, how the hell are you going to get out of here? I look at the medic and ask “You guys gotta go that way anyway don't you. Can you give me a lift? And the medic looks at me, he goes. Really? He goes to the helicopter and comes back. The pilots says okay. So they threw me a space blanket and put me in the back of the helicopter. Came up over the Golden Gate and then back down in Fort Baker, right? | + | So, I shook my head. Yeah. And I got to where I could talk and a couple minutes later **here comes a helicopter.** Guy **puts out flares and the copter lands**, all right. One of the guys jumps out, he's the medic, right, jumps out and he runs over to me he's asked me a question to see if I know where I am. Okay. Okay, “well we're gonna take you to San Francisco General Hospital to the emergency department, they'll take real good care of you……ummm, I said - that's okay, that’s alright (I don’t need to go to the hospital). **The hiker says “It took me 3 hours to hike into here and I have hiking boots, how the hell are you going to get out of here?** I look at the medic and ask “You guys gotta go that way anyway don't you. **Can you give me a lift?** And the medic looks at me, he goes. Really? He goes to the helicopter and comes back. **The pilots says okay.** So they threw me a space blanket and put me in the back of the helicopter. Came up over the Golden Gate and then back down in Fort Baker, right? |
| And there's a whole bunch of guys lined up there, looking, you know, to see what kind of shape Gregory is in, right? So, i was walking away and the medic comes over and says “Take this” and he throws me a roll of film (photographic film) - I got it developed and see a whole bunch of pictures and I realized there's a panoramic view of the bay at the golden gate from north to south. I sent copies of it to Greg Barton and Joost because they had been out in the bay looking for me. | And there's a whole bunch of guys lined up there, looking, you know, to see what kind of shape Gregory is in, right? So, i was walking away and the medic comes over and says “Take this” and he throws me a roll of film (photographic film) - I got it developed and see a whole bunch of pictures and I realized there's a panoramic view of the bay at the golden gate from north to south. I sent copies of it to Greg Barton and Joost because they had been out in the bay looking for me. | ||
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