You think this guy would save your life?
The headline on the article sent to me by Jim Banholzer read: Shark Rescues Man Adrift in Pacific Ocean. That I’ve got to read, I thought. Of all the large creatures on the planet, it seems that sharks along with alligators are the least likely to be performing any humanitarian deeds.
So here’s what happened to Toakai Teitoi of Kiribati, a Micronesian island nation 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii. He took a two-hour boat ride with his brother-in-law from the capital of Tarawa, where Teitoi had flown to be sworn in as a policeman, to his home in Maiana. But it didn’t work out that way. He and Ielu Falaile stopped to fish en route, and lost track of time. They ran out of gas, and were set adrift on the 15-foot boat with very little water.
They were apparently able to catch fish, but suffered from severe dehydration and Ielu died after a few weeks. Toakai was finally saved after 105 days. He was laying in the boat with his head covered to protect him from the sun when a six-foot shark bumped against the boat, circled it, and swam away. Toakai sat up and saw a ship coming his way with crew members peering at him through binoculars. If he hadn’t sat up, the crew might’ve thought it was an abandoned boat and ship might’ve continued on.
Did the shark intentionally save Toakai? If it were a dolphin, I might say yes. But a shark? I would say it’s more likely a life-saving synchronicity. The shark probably was interested in eating Toakai, not rescuing him. But its actions inadvertently saved his life. Then again, maybe there was an invisible force involved, a non-physical entity who came to the man’s rescue by nudging the shark into action.
Yep. The ole 15/6 continues to rear it’s compelling head relentlessly, more and more often, and in such inexplicable ways.
i just cannot see a shark in this empathetic position. but it is so. it happened, right. i guess that every rule does have an exception…
I thought about ‘rain’ too, and that maybe he had containers to catch it. And I agree with Mike. Thought about that, too. It wasn’t his time. But I also thought about “shape-shifting” extra-dimensional entities…..good ones….who may have taken on the image of a shark to bump the boat, who knows. And at great risk of sounding like a broken record, the frequency of anything and everything to do with UFOs/ETs is 15/6. His boat was 15 feet long, and he was adrift for 105 days. SYNCHRO there, and synchro with UFOs/ETs. May not be connected, but again, who knows? I think we definitely have some extra-dimensional entities who are guardians for us.
Hmmm….the ubiquitous 15/6
i saw this story online elsewhere, too – and remember wondering of the “real” deal – but it really doesn’t matter i think – the bottom line is that the man was saved – however, i do think that there are so many many things we still don’t understand or know of our creature cousins – and the times, they are a’changin’!
I think the world is changing in many ways – animals are acting strangely. Or maybe the veil is thinning enough that we can begin to see that things are not as we have always thought them to be. I read something not long ago about a shark acting in a friendly way to a kayacker. It is hard to know if the shark was looking for food or was helping the man – but the most important aspect of this story is that the man THOUGHT he was there to help him. What made him think that? There had to be some reason he felt that way. 115 days at sea one would think he would hate predators, so he must have some reason for believing as he does.
I guess it wasn’t Toakai’s time to die, he may well still have something in life to complete. The shark was part of this process.
Part of the process: a messenger?!!
Interesting post. I’d really like to know how the man survived 105 days without hydration. Humans can’t drink sea-water, and even though the old movie WATERWORLD showed the characters filtering urine and drinking it, that wouldn’t have been possible in this situation. In any case, this story reminds me a bit of the movie THE ABYSS, (one of my favorites), in which the humans are saved by deep undersea aliens. Who can even begin to imagine what lives beneath the depths of our oceans?
This post brings food for thought.
Rain?
Interesting – strange – weird. Who knows. In any case, lucky man no matter what the cause. However, if the shark was bumping the boat to eat the man, why didn’t he do that days earlier? Are sharks intelligent like dolphins?
Interesting. It doesn’t really matter what the shark intended, it did save his life. What a traumatic event that was; to survive 105 days on the water like that.
” Did you know sharks could cuddle? Madi Stewart takes us into her amazing underwater world and invites us to help stop the unthinkably barbaric practice of shark-finning that takes place legally at the Great Barrier Reef. ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PC_Uw9z2ync
I wouldn’t swim with sharks though,especially after seeing this movie on the weekend;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi4wcCVXd6o
I also have a fear of big waves,supermarkets and bad actors as well,
thanks to this movie.-)