Elora District High School - Undique Yearbook (Elora, Ontario Canada)

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4 Thirty Below Zero Ann Johnston Somewhere between Iceland and northern Sweden a small rubber dinghy floating on an oil-smeared sea. It was grey and bleak, it was o c d rolled by into minutes, growing colder and darker as the seton s hours The cold did no harm to the worried souls W the minutes into 0 2 ,h , the dinghy but the men in the water hanging on felt it badly. -here seven terrified women in the boat, which should Kunder normal ' 4 Th .e women were beginning to feel the tions! have held only five. es M ' e ' 'n lan Evans asked ii any for warmth and dry clothingu when taptal V laces with two of the older men in the watera Two ::l.'? ' them could change p K . ,. women slid into the water in time to see one of the elderly gent say good-bye to this worlds t hold firmly onto Mro Jacuhs, Captain evans 'asked one of the men o .. d 4 A V climbed into the dinchy, After a moment or two the dead man, while ie . O of delisgent searching he produced a prayer booka Slowly and in a very beautiful mode he read the service for the burial of the dead at seac ' ' vrne when they hoped to find He knew that before the end of their got y, some soil to land upon, he would have to read this service many times. 'Theupther women offered to change places with the people in the waterl Six men climbed into the beat, but Captain Evans was not among them. Suddenly they saw what looked to be a lifeboato They hailed it but no answero They could not hear the creaking of the oars in the life boat, so two women and Captain Evans swam away towards ith Back they came triumphant. One of the life-boats had brnken loose when the ship went down and it had clothing, blankets, food and water in it. lt also had a piece of rope so that they could tie the dinghy to it. The life ' :. ve as a roof. This boat was covered with a tarpaulin which would ser d d b the women while the men all slid back into was taken off and fol e up y . the water to give them plenty of room to works Just as they had every- thing ready the captain said that he'd just swim away for a couple of minutes, but one of the men grabbed him just as he was about tc sinks lled him in. There was room for everyone to get out of the . ,They pu 1, ' wadetnnogt' The women Kthree of whom were nurses! gave the captain artificialirespiration. pThey had been working on him for hours, and now it wasfnesriy the morning of the second day. They were about to give up phpgg ,when he moved. 1An hour later he was sittin up and eating his br aifaet of water andqcrackers. One of the men gthe mate! told him that an icebengninlthe night, he also told the captain that 'a compassmnagmapl and a thermometer. After he handed these checked theirgpqsgtion and informed,everyona that they were north. A il?Ff'ldH:'ge iceberg drifted up near them. They onto 'lgzlgrcggtain sa:i,q,,that .if they ,found some drift-v ih'abou ft tee hours time they could be on friendly found and the boats pushed off d e south. Land was sighted. v Captain Evans told them thirty below zero. ' , 'PUBS Ll if cont. 93E - next ,-pagel ,

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