"It ain't over till the fat lady sings."
People read you have 3 minutes without air, 3 days water, 30 days food or 72 hour survival kits and at minute 4 or hour 73 give up and die.
Will to live is your Ace card.
I was in Oregon,in winter water that should have killed me and the kid i rescued. Granted, I had a full wetsuit on, a lifejacket and was swimming just to keeep my position.
I was just plain MAD. The idiot lifeboat coxswain that day couldn't keep track of anything or anybody besides his check every two weeks.We were in 'killer temps' for 40 minutes.
I wanted to deck him.
I just conspired with the equally mad Yoeman to lose his pay records upon his joyfull transfer.