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The merciless wild

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the heartless seems

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when nature unleashes her.

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Cool.

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Could you escape?

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Could you survive?

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These are the true stories

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of outdoorsmen confronted by death.

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Armed with raw courage and a will to live,

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they are the ones who beat the odds

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and return from their own fight

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to survive.

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A hunter vanishes
in one of the most unforgiving

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hunting grounds in America.

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Unstoppable, bad.

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You know, everything happens
and it happens quick.

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I only had, like, 30 seconds.

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A one day hunt in the Florida Everglades
turns into four days.

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Trapped in a living hell.

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Really?

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Guinea to.

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He outwits alligators and snakes

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only to suffer the deadliest
of all challenges.

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Easier just to give up and die right now.

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Hunting, fishing and camping, often

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on his own
in the rugged hills of upstate New York.

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From the time he was a boy
have taught Jamie Moss

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the crucial lessons of wilderness
survival.

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I grew up in the city,
but I just loved outdoor work so much,

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and I did mostly just hunt fish,
but I was always comfortable in the woods.

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In 2009,

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Jamie trades the familiar woods
and streams of his home state

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with a semi-truck
a mile south lands of Florida.

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But with him,
he brought his love of the outdoors,

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which is how he met
Matt Peppler while out fishing one day.

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And we got to talking on the pier and
fishing together and really hit it off.

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And basically, you know, we had a really
great friendship ever since that day.

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I ended up switching from, you know,

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being a big game hunter to doing whatever
kind of hunting I could do.

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Because in Florida, it's just a totally
different kind of atmosphere from,

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you know, upstate New York.

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Whatever was possible,
we were out and tried

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to catch.

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On November 16th, 2009.

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Jamie meets two local hunters who offer
to take him on a day of wild boar hunting.

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And invited me to go.

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And I'm so gung ho, gung
ho about going out hunting.

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I consider myself

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very good hunter, so I think I'd
definitely be able to get something.

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Yes, I assumed he was going to go have
a great time with these other hunters.

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I was excited to hear how he did
when he got back.

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Jamie gathers his gear and rides with them
to their cabin deep in the Everglades.

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The plan is to get up with the dawn
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In the morning
we walk up on my hunting clothes

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and they went out to start the truck stop.

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Guys ready to go in their truck and start.

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So they were going to work on the truck
and it just wouldn't start this morning.

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So I said, Well, I'm not mechanic
and I'm going hunting.

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You guys can fix the truck.

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So they told me where to go.

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They said,
walk down the road or, you know, a mile or

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so and cut into your left.

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So that's what I did.

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And then at 9 a.m.,

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Jamie Moche enters an environment
like nothing he's ever encountered.

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The Everglades is a slow moving river,

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60 miles wide and 100 miles long.

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The dense sawgrass and razor sharp.

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Paul Meadows,
provide habitat for wild boar, deer

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snapping turtles, panthers, exotic

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giant pythons and bull alligators.

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I had a 12 gauge Mossberg pump compass.

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You know, I had all my survival gear
and my cell phone.

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I had everything that I needed.

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I had some water that day.

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So for the day, I was good to go.

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Jamie moves into the Glades, putting miles
between him and the cabin.

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It's a silent stalk through deep water
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His mind on wild game.

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It was really hot day that day,
so nothing was really moving.

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I saw some gators, saw some snakes, but

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I didn't see any pigs.

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Deeper and deeper,
Jamie stalks, undeterred.

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The Everglades is ten times
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than upstate New York.

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I thought I could handle it.

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It wasn't a big deal and nice, you know,
being out there, seeing all the different

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things,
being out in a different environment

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and seeing all the different
animals, snakes and the alligators.

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Tired
from dealing with the difficult terrain,

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Jamie stretches out on a patch of dry
ground for a short nap.

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He awakens to the unexpected.

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When I woke up and realized

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it was dark, I figured, you know,

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you know, normally I'll just walk out.

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But the flashlight was dead.
All my stuff was dead.

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Everything got wet that day.

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I mean, at night,
you can't move because you're literally

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you can't see in front of your face.

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I was stuck that night

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and at time.

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And so I honestly didn't
think it was a real big deal.

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You know, I've stayed out ten times
worse conditions in this.

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You know, so
I started a fire that night, had a fire.

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And, you know, I slept next to my gun.

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And it was nice.

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With a

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broken compass, a waterlogged
cell phone and dead

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flashlight,
Jamie is left with only his shotgun.

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He settles into his first night
surrounded by darkness

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and a vast marsh full of predators.

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But no amount of firepower

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and no amount of experience
gained from years of hunting.

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The placid woods of upstate New York
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and death ordeal, awaiting him.

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30 year old

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Jamie Marsh has brought his New York State
wilderness survival skills

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to the fore and territory of South Florida
deep in the Everglades.

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He is far from the friends
he has come hunting with,

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having endured an exhausting day
of slogging through sloughs,

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ruining his compass,
flashlight and cell phone.

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Now, darkness has trapped him
till morning.

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We got down on 47 degrees or something,
which is pretty cool.

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People don't know
it's that cold in November and Florida.

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Jamie's last chance to be located by
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is to fire off the universal backwoods
distress signal.

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He fired three fast, three slow,

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and then three fast shots.

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And I heard one gunshot.

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You know, it seemed pretty close,
but I was pretty sure where it came from.

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So I marks an arrow
in the ground and night

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so I could walk that way in the morning,
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When Jamie does not return to the cabin,

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the other hunters contact the police
and report him missing.

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Now, Jamie's other friends and family know
he's in jeopardy.

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I didn't really know what to think.

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Obviously, I was concerned.

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But Jamie did have a lot of survival
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and my assumption
was that he probably did make a fire

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and camped out there and he'd make
his way back out at daylight.

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I was out before the sun came up.

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You know, I was cold.
I was ready to get moving.

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You know, my fire died off.

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I had no food, no water.

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So I was ready.

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I was very eager, you know, to get moving.

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So I followed the sun slowly came up.

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I knew exactly which way to go.

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But thickets of sharp edged
Paul Meadows and tangles of vines

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prevent Jamie
from being able to maintain a direct path.

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Sometimes I'd have to take detours
to go through because I was so thick

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you couldn't get through it,
so you'd have to go in the water

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and end up chest deep in water.

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I didn't plan on going through,

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but I have to go through it
to get to the next piece of land.

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It's now
been over 24 hours and Jamie Moche

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is beginning to realize the magnitude
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In this environment.

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When you get lost, it's not like New York
or you can find a when you have hills

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or find something that you can pick out
and walk towards, you know, say

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where you have

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some point of direction to go towards
and you can keep following that direction.

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So this is flash.

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Nothing to keep your bearings,
to know exactly where to go.

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With none of the usual landmarks

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common
in his old hunting grounds to go on,

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Jamie is reduced to aimless wandering.

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He desperately tries to find some sign

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to point him back
towards the hunting cabin.

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As as the days progressed,
I was definitely becoming more concerned.

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I. I felt that something
must have happened to him.

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Jamie knows he's undergoing a rule change

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from apex predator hunting the glades.

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He has now become potential prey,
vulnerable to everything from the charge

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of a wild boar snakebite being caught
by a python or the attack of a gator.

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But most of all,
he is at the mercy of the environment.

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I'm walking through some water that's,
you know, probably three foot deep,

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know my rubber boots on, you know,
leg up to my knees and I'm stuck in mud.

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The swamp mud is acting like quicksand.

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And as I'm trying to take, you know, take
a step, you know, my boots are coming off

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and I'm just sinking further and further,
but don't want to lose my boots.

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Like an ice age animal caught in a tarp.

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It Jamie fights against the gluey mud.

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I'm sinking. I'm sinking. And I'm sinking.

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Frantically.

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Jamie kicks hard to try and free himself
from whatever is holding on to his boots.

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I might up to my waist, you know,
and I'm stuck, you know?

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I mean, I'm sinking slowly in the mud.

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The tugging and kicking
is churning the mud even more.

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And Jamie sinks faster,
even if he can escape drowning.

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He may still be trapped, immobile
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that other forces could take his life.

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End up up to water,
up to my arm, up to my chin.

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The deeper Jamie most sinks,

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the closer
he is coming to dying alone and lost

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in the heart of the Everglades.

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Punter Jamie Moche lost and alone
deep in the Florida

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Everglades is trapped in quicksand
like mud

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and is moments from death.

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I started thinking,
you know, and I had my gun in my left hand

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and I'm saying I my a branch
with my right hand trying to keep me up.

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I only had like 30 seconds

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left, so I had to make a decision.

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Jamie needs both hands to survive.

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He tries to throw his gun to shore.

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And make it to shore cause it landed in a.

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Swamp.

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Jamie's last hope to free himself
is to slip

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out of his boots, pants and gear.

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And buckle my fanny pack in my pants.

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So I was able to get out,
slip out of the mud,

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and then there's three foot of water
on top, which I was able to swim ashore

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to get out of the quicksand.

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The desperate plan works

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half naked, caked in mud and unarmed.

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Jamie crawls from the deadly bog.

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Whatever's on shore.

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You know, I took a breath and some.

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I wanted to get some my gear back
and get anything back.

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He kept going back into the water
and just swimming on top of the water,

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sticking my hands like in the mud,
trying to feel for anything.

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But actually, I couldn't find anything.

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You know, the gun. It sunk. My pants.

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Fanny pack. Like everything was gone.

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You know, and I'm real concerned.

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You know, I'm in a tank top.

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I have no gear.

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I don't know where I'm at.

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I'm in a total environment
where you don't want to be without shoes.

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You want you know,
you don't want to be without a gun.

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You don't want to be
without any of your gear.

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You know what I mean?

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And I didn't have anything.

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Jamie's physical predicament
could hardly be worse.

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He is now three days
without food or drinking water.

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His gun and gear
and even his clothes have been lost.

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All he can see is unbroken thickets
of sawgrass and palmetto.

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Jamie's ordeal is mirrored by the anguish
his friends and family are enduring.

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Not knowing was definitely

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the hardest part.

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Did he have a fall and injure himself?

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Was he
bitten by a snake? Was it an alligator?

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Jamie has not had anything to drink.

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He fears swamp borne disease.

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Then luckily,
he comes upon a natural spring.

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You don't find 20 rocks in the Everglades
and there's like water in it.

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Crystal clear water.

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And every little matter in Florida

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has these little guppies
in a little bit of these little minnows.

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Jamie uses his shirt as a filter
to catch the guppies.

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Having the guppies,
you know, just, you know, not very many.

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Just what I could catch in my shirt.

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Got a couple frogs at them.

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As he drinks
the spring water and eats the tiny fish,

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he realizes
there could be a heartier meal.

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I remember I was down on my hands
and knees, like slurping this water

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and it's like the eel looking like thing
like came out.

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I thought it was like a snake, like,
come out like that,

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like to bite my lip or something,
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So I jumped back and ended up
getting a stick and wiggling it

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in front of the hole.

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And when he came out and grabbed it
and behind so and again, I death.

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It's now four days into Jamie Moses
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He's been slashed by vines
and devoured by insects.

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I'm drenched, you know, from the swamps
all day.

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I'm caught up dead. Bugs are horrendous.

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You know, I was covered from head to toe.

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There wasn't one spot on me
that didn't have a bug bite.

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Really getting it.

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I never seen anything like it.

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Wading through waist deep water,
Jamie is on the alert

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for venomous snakes,
pythons and aggressive alligators.

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But the real danger
is something unexplored.

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It that may hawk the lost hunter
in his tracks.

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And up to a cemetery in summer

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and in between some branches.

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I got my meal.

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On top of all his other trials.

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Jamie now has to deal with a dislocated
knee that may reduce him to immobility.

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He must take action.

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When you have a meal, it hurts really bad
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But after a half hour swells up so big

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and it's pretty much like it's broken,
you can't do anything.

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You can't move it.

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And I knew for a fact, you know,

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if I put my knee back in pretty soon,
within a couple of minutes,

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it's going to swell so big.
I'm not going to have to pop it back in.

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I'm not going to
get I'm just gonna be stuck.

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Jamie will have to treat his

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injury himself
if he hopes to keep walking his way out.

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He braces himself.

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He must force his kneecap back into place.

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Blinding pain shoots through.

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Jamie

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now without a gun gear
or a way to make a fire.

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He faces having to hobble on

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worse than all, though,

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is the spreading sense of despair.

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I've been going through this for days.

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You know, I'm just thinking about I just.

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I pretty much do this.

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For Hunter, Jamie Moche,

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the Florida Everglades, 4000
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vegetation have become a death trap,

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while his family and friends
can only hope and pray.

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It was a very helpless feeling.

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All we could really do
was talk to each other

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and try and keep our spirits up.

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And we had everybody here on
the case and we had there was

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so many people involved that

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he was going to be found
that was sure of it.

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For four days, Jamie has been under siege
from the environment.

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He survives
insects, no food, a near drowning,

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and along the way has lost his shotgun
gear, boots and even his clothes.

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He's dislocated his knee
and can only hobble forward.

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He tries to suppress dark thoughts.

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I put my leg back in.

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I sort of like got a second wind,
you know, after I feel sorry

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for myself, thinking about myself
and, you know, thinking about this.

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And I think about my mother and my friends
and thinking about everybody.

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It was like, you know what?

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If anybody can make it out of this,
you can make it out of this.

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For his family and friends whom he knows
are waiting for him, he presses on.

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Then he sees helicopters flying overhead.

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You've seen his helicopters

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and they're flying over top of me,
but they're not seeing me.

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The helicopters are a beacon of hope
that the search is on for him.

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Jamie knows that if he is going to
be saved, he must aid in his own rescue.

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I am climbing up this tree

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and sitting in the street
for a couple of hours in the morning,

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trying to get a chopper to fly by
that could see me.

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Of course, no helicopters fly
by an all time Olympic team

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miles away,
but none came by me the whole time.

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Jamie's efforts crew futile.

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Facing defeat,
he climbs down from his perch.

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He's ready to give up.

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I find this hot
spot and I lay down and I'm.

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And, you know, it's like.

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I'm like a little clearing.

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Then a miraculous sound.

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You know, I'm here and Jamie. Jamie.

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And then I start here
and then get further and further away.

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So I screamed out, help and,
you know, he screamed running.

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And here, you know, I said, yeah,
you know, I'm Jamie.

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And they came over and they found me.

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And I started crying
and I bust out down tears.

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And I was just so overwhelmed,
you know, that

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I was found, you know, face
we found Jamie.

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He's banged up, but he's alive.

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Drained of emotion.

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Jamie feels true exhaustion set in
as his rescuers help him from the Glades.

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He looked like
he had walked out of a horror movie.

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He was cut from head to toe cuts
on top of mosquito bites.

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On top of cuts.

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It was it looked pretty gruesome,
but he was in good spirits and

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and otherwise healthy.

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It was amazing to see him. It was amazing.

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Just a surreal, almost a joyous occasion.

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And I

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was just so happy to see everybody,
my whole family,

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you know, I felt bad that I put everybody
through what I did.

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They had to go through all this, you know?

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I know my story and how for them,
just think that they lost their friend

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or they lost their child.

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This harrowing incident has given Jamie
a new perspective on life.

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I definitely live each day
with a little bit more love for life.

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I appreciate my friends
and my family ten times more

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because you really don't know what's
going to happen the day after the next.

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So you got to tell your parents
how you love them.

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Tell your friends that you love them.
You learn anything.

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You know, out of this whole incident.
Always be prepared, you know?

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And just remember,
anything can happen at any time.

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Jamie Moche

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continued his life as an avid outdoorsman

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in the spring of 2013, shortly
after sharing this story.

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Jamie passed away suddenly.

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His incredible story of survival

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remains
a testament to the adventurous spirit

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that guided his life.