Thread: Have you ever almost died?

Interesting thread, close calls I've had my share. But life is not a game of horseshoes, close doesn't count. You are either dead or alive.
That said I feel more alive riding on the edge.

One of my more exiting close calls was while on a charter flying some utility workers from Kotzebue Ak to Point Hope and Point Lay in Piper Navajo in the middle of winter. I had unexpected winds aloft which put me in low fuel situation on the return leg. Being alert and aware of what was happening in did the old trick of running the outboard tanks completely out of fuel before switching back to the mains. This involves putting the airplane in slight climb and waiting for the engines to start sputtering.
Mind it was in he middle of the night in the arctic over the Brooks Range. A very very lonely place.
I make it back alright. When I top off my tanks I figured I had only 15 minutes of fuel left. Had I not performed the running the tanks dry procedure I might not of made it

Anyway just one of so many close ones.

Originally Posted by billy the kid

boss asked if i was ok,, so told him to find another painter

lol. A whole lighting rig fell on my head once from 10m.

Called the boss and told him to come and take over as I was concussed and about to pass out.

Cvnt said

"I'm watching the boxing - call me back in half an hour if you still feel bad"

bondi baech in '99. real choppy surf, just at dusk when the lifeguards had gone. got into serious trouble when me leash snapped and i remembered thinking "if i die i wont see star wars episode 1". now if id known just how wank it would be then i wouldve been so fussed. thankfully a wave took me all the way into shore. always chuckle now to watch bondi rescue, nearly always brits or chinks who need rescueing. also, being robbed at knifepoint in lombok wasnt much fun either

How about a cartoon like story?

During an internship, many decades ago, I was working on a very tall, slim rack. Unfortunately that rack was not fixed at the top as is should have been. So it toppled over when the door of that rack opened wide. No problem, I was able to hold and stabilize it. Unfortunately not before the edge of the door touched the ground and was lifted out of its hinges. While I uprighted the rack and put it in a stable position that door gently touched another rack in my back that should also have been fixed into position but was not. As a result that rack started falling in my direction while I was preoccupied with the first one. It hit me right at the head and knocked me unconcious. When I woke up a few people from the other end of the room had just reached me. I touched the back of my head and said from the shape of the dent there a hinge of that other rack, solid metal I must say, had made its impression. They confirmed that this hinge was seriously bent, so my conclusion was correct.

Fortunately no other consequences and that dent disappeared only 20 years later.