Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
(Image Source: Facebook)
BY CANDICE AVILES
A British teenager lost for days in the Australian Outback survived by drinking his contact solution
and urine. Sky News reported the teen, Sam Woodhead, was rescued a few hours before it
may have been too late.
“I’m really grateful for all the guys that helped out
and all the team and I know that so many people helped out and so many people got involved
and I genuinely believe if it weren’t for them I wouldn’t be here today.”
According
to Metro, Woodhead disappeared on Tuesday after he went on a jog from a cattle station
where he worked in Queensland. With temperatures hovering around 104 degrees Fahrenheit, he
became disoriented but survived three days in those conditions from the limited liquids
he had with him. [Video: ITV]
Woodhand owes his father for the other liquids he survived on.
“The boxes of lenses
had been packed in an outer pocket of his rucksack by his father … He took the rucksack
with him on his run, and found the lenses after drinking his one bottle of water.”
Rescue
crews found Woodhead more than 10 miles away from the cattle station. He was badly sunburned
and dehydrated. A rescue helicopter pilot on scene says Woodhead was a lucky one. The
pilot, “described the area Sam became lost in as ‘harsh and unforgiving’” going
on to say, “Not that long ago we had a guy who was missing for a much shorter time and
passed away.”
A commander of local emergency services told The Telegraph of a
few other dangers Woodhand somehow avoided while out in the wild for three days.
“There
are snakes and wild pigs and dingoes - if you’re weak and lying down, they will get
you.”
Woodhand is expected to make a full recovery.