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From the Wikipedia page on the Amazon rain forest crash... The sole survivor was 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke. Despite a broken collar bone, a deep gash to he
by pugworthy 6y ago
From the Wikipedia page on the Amazon rain forest crash...
The sole survivor was 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke. Despite a broken collar bone, a deep gash to her right arm, an eye injury, and concussion, she was able to trek through the dense Amazon jungle for 10 days and found shelter in a hut. Local lumberjacks found her and took her by canoe back to civilization.
It was later determined that as many as 14 other passengers also survived the initial crash but died awaiting rescue.
It's just one case, but in the case of isolation, moving seems smarter than staying put.
- wahern 6y agoIsn't the usual advice from Search & Rescue professionals to stay put? For example, > “It’s best to stay in one place because the searchers will get to that place,” Strong said. Moving just a mile creates a search area of three square miles, Strong said. Move two miles, and the search area expands to 12 square miles. Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/if-youre-lost-in-the-woods-stay-put-says-outdoors-expert/ https://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/if-youre-lost-in-th... I imagine that advice becomes better every year, as response times improve. Of course, if there's no reason to think rescuers would be able to fix your initial location to any reasonable precision, then I guess you have to use your head.
- 1shooner 6y agoThis assumes rescuers know where to start looking. The survivors of Uruguayan AF flight 571, described in the book Alive, waited 2 months at the crash site before hiking 10 days to find help (losing 8 people to avalanche and resorting to cannibalism in the mean time).