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Speaker 1: We fished for about an hour or so, and the

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waves just continued to get worse and worse as the

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hour went on. We decided this was not worth it.

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Let's turn around and go in shore.

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Speaker 2: The three brothers began packing up and turning the boat

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toward shore.

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Speaker 1: And not thirty seconds later, everything changed.

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Speaker 3: There was no warning.

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Speaker 2: A huge wave coming from the side violently slammed into

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their boat, a rogue wave. Before Kyle could even take

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a breath, his body was hurled into the deep, churning ocean,

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his ears filled with muffled sounds as he clawed at

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the water, desperate to reach the surface.

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Speaker 3: This is the Miracle Files.

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Speaker 4: I'm Emily Jones and I'm Holly Worthington, where two sisters

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who love a captivated true story. But we're also seeking

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more light in our lives.

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Speaker 2: So we're on a mission to find and share unforgettable,

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uplifting stories of God's miracles. We hope you'll join us

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on this journey.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back to the Miracle Files. We have a great

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story for you today. And if you remember our Mystery

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Boat episode, if you love that one, you're gonna love

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this One's day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, this is another story where you can just

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practically feel something swimming under your feet as you listen

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to it.

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Speaker 3: It's really good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, kind of a scary thought, So enjoy and we

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can't wait to discuss this one afterwards.

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Speaker 2: At first, to Kyle, willis nothing about the morning felt foreboting.

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That's how so many of these stories begin not with danger,

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not with fear, but with something ordinary. It was November

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twenty fifth, two thousand and seven, the sunday after Thanksgiving.

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Kyle headed out for a day of deep sea fishing

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with his twin brother Kevin and their older brother Michael,

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who captained an eighteen foot seacat. The sky was mostly clear,

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and though the water held a restless edge, the two

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foot waves didn't feel like a warning of things to come.

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Speaker 1: The fishing trip was something we did often whenever we

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were in town from college, and we went out about

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six am off the coast of Boyton Beach, Florida, which

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is in South Florida on the Atlantic side, and typical

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morning we went out to get our bait and from

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there we went out about four miles off the coast.

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Typically that's where about six hundred feet of water hits,

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so that kind of depth is where we found usual

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success in fishing, right along the weed line. They're about

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four miles off the coast.

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Speaker 2: Their older brother, Brian, was also supposed to go out

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with them that day, but he'd been called into work,

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and Michael's wife at the time, Amy, had also decided

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not to go at the last minute. She was seven

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months pregnant and wasn't feeling up to it on this

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particular morning. The three brothers were still happy to be

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out there, enjoying.

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Speaker 3: Each other's company.

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Speaker 2: They fished, they waited, they adjusted lines, but after a

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while it became clear the ocean wasn't cooperating. The bites

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weren't coming. Though the forecast had promised calm, the water

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slowly began to change. The ship happened so gradually it

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was hard to notice at first.

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Speaker 1: And so we fished for about an hour or so,

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and the waves just continued to get worse and worse.

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Speaker 2: The three brothers hoped the waves would settle, but they didn't. Instead,

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they grew higher, rougher, more aggressive. With each passing minute,

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the boat began to rise and fall more sharply, its

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movements less predictable.

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Speaker 1: Now and then my twin brother was getting seasick. He

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had actually been so sick that he was thrown up overboard.

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So we decided this was not worth it. Let's go

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ahead and pack everything up and turn around and go inshore.

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Speaker 2: It was a simple logical choice, the kind that should

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have ended the story before it ever had the chance

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to begin. But you know what they say, even the

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best laid plans can go wrong. The three brothers began

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packing up, securing gear, and turning the boat toward shore.

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Speaker 1: And not thirty seconds later, everything changed.

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Speaker 2: There was no warning, no time to react. One moment,

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they were heading back toward shore, cresting over a wave.

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The next, a huge second wave coming from the side,

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violently slammed into their boat.

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Speaker 3: A rogue wave.

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Speaker 2: Before Kyle could even take a breath, his body was

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hurled into the deep, churning ocean. His ears filled with

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muffled sounds as he clawed at the water, desperate to

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reach the surface. When he finally broke through, he took

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in a gulp of air, but there was no time

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Speaker 3: As he bobbed in the swell, his thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Turned immediately to his brothers. He spun scanning the water

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heart pounding for a moment there was nothing but waves,

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and then relief washed over him. There they were, both

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Michael and Kevin. But what about the boat?

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Speaker 1: And we thought when we popped up out of the water,

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the boat had capsized, But as we got our bearings together,

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we realized the boat had not capsized.

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Speaker 2: Worse than capsizing, the boat had thrown them overboard, then uprighted,

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and was now disappearing into the distance.

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately the boat was still full throttle and it

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was moving away from us in a fast way.

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Speaker 2: Kyle felt the raw panic of seeing his only means

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of safety vanish into the horizon. There was no possible

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way to catch it. He looked around at his brothers.

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Like Kyle, they had no life jackets on because they

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had all been actively fishing and moving around in the boat,

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and the jackets were stored below. In fact, just before

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they were thrown overboard, Kyle had mentioned grabbing the life jackets.

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Speaker 3: The thought had come only seconds too late.

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Speaker 2: Now the boat was gone and the three brothers were

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alone in open water, four miles off shore and caught

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in a current that was dragging them even farther out

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to sea. No one knew of their predicament, and they

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weren't expected home for hours. Together, the brothers made some

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quick decisions.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was a strong current, and we decided

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we were going to stick together and separating and trying

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to see if we could find help. And we decided

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to get as much weight off of us, so we

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got our shoes and most of our clothes off. We

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had tore up our shirts in the water, trying to

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figure it if somebody might come by, we could try

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to flag them down in some way.

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Speaker 2: Their first instinct was to try to swim. They strained

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against the current, but instantly realized the attempt was futile.

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Speaker 1: We tried to swim a little bit and within thirty

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seconds just completely exhausted, fighting the current but also the waves.

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Speaker 2: Kyle's twin, Kevin, was in especially bad shape. Already drained

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from seasickness. He struggled to keep himself afloat. As Kyle

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battled the waves, he did everything he could to lift

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Kevin just enough to keep his head above the surface. Too.

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to be managed, every movement had to be measured slowly, steadily.

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Kevin regained enough strength to keep himself from sinking. The

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three brothers tried to flow on their backs whenever possible

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in order to conserve energy, but the sea would not

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allow even that small.

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Speaker 3: Mercy for long.

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Speaker 2: The swells had become so rough that each time the

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brothers tried to rest, waves broke over their faces and

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filled their mouths and throats with salt water.

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Speaker 1: And that was probably the worst part, just because then

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you'd have to pop up and continue treading water. Thankfully,

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we were all really good swimmers, but out with no

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life jackets, tread and water it was hard.

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Speaker 2: Michael, the oldest brother, became the voice of hope in

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the water.

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Speaker 1: My oldest brother, Michael said, Hey, we're gonna be fine.

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he knew that we weren't drifting towards shore. I think

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it was more of him trying to keep us positive.

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Speaker 2: The brothers were now about two hours into the ordeal,

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and their situation was becoming worse by the minute.

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Speaker 3: They were growing tired, losing strength.

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Speaker 2: Just then, the three brothers saw something that made their

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hearts leap two helicopters hovering.

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Speaker 3: In the distance.

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Speaker 2: Maybe, just maybe someone had found their boat. And help

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was on its way. But even if that were the case,

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they knew the odds of anyone finding them, and the

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immense ocean were impossibly slim, like trying to find a

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single grain of sand on an endless beach. Still, as

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they battled the waves, they held onto hope. They kept

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their anxious eyes on the distant helicopters. After about thirty minutes,

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Kyle noticed that one of the helicopters seemed to be

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getting closer and closer.

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Speaker 3: It flew straight toward them.

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Speaker 2: It was near enough now that the pilot had to

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see them.

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Speaker 3: This was it, This was their chance for rescue.

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Speaker 2: Kyle and his brothers waved their torn shirts and shouted

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with everything they had left.

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Speaker 1: They came within It felt like one hundred yards from us,

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and we were waving and screaming, and they passed right

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over us. And then they kind of came around, and

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we were, at that moment thought they found us.

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Speaker 2: But something was wrong. The helicopter swooped low, then passed

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by them, then left gone. It was like a bullet

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of acid hit all three men's stomachs at once, and

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that's when reality really started to sink in.

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Speaker 1: They couldn't see us. We were so small in the water,

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and the waves had just gotten worse, about six feet

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or so at that time.

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Speaker 2: Up until then, there had been hope, the sense that

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rescue was possible and perhaps even close. But watching the

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coastguard come that near and still miss them forced a

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terrible realization to crash over them, like the raging sea

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around them. Rescue might be impossible, it might not come

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at all. Fear hung over Kyle and his brothers like

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a dark shadow. None of the three brothers wanted to

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make the others more afraid than they already were, so

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outwardly they kept speaking in steady, hopeful tones, but inwardly,

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something deeper had begun, and that was the moment Kyle

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turned to God, I think.

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Speaker 1: It's totally we're all feeling that fear, and I mean,

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we're such a small speck in the water at this point.

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began to set it in, and deep sense of prayer

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and crying out to the Lord.

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Speaker 2: Treading water there in the ocean, the bottomless feeling beneath

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his feet, the overwhelming fastness threatening to swallow him and

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his brother's hole. Kyle knew he was nothing without God.

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The relentless waves stripped away any illusion of control, and

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in his helpless state, Kyle was no longer speaking about

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God from a distance. He was calling on him, not

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out loud, but from deep in Kyle's soul, asking God

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to be near and to help Kyle and his brothers

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in a way they had never needed before. Facing an

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uncertain future and possibly even death, Kyle laid his soul

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bare before the Lord.

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Speaker 1: It was just recognizing my own sin, I think was

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a huge piece of that, Like really understanding the depth

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of my sin and what I needed in order to

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be right before him.

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Speaker 2: Three and a half hours had now passed since Kyle

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and his brothers were thrown into the ocean. Even though

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this was Florida, the late November water was cold enough

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to completely drain their energy, leaving their bodies heavy, shivering,

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and exhausted. Kyle continued to plead with God as they drifted,

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no one speaking. The only sound came from the roar

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of the crashing waves around them. Then, breaking through the monotony,

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came a new sound. Faint at first, a distant, familiar,

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chopping sound. It grew steadily louder and Kyle's heart raced

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as he saw a helicopter flying through the sky toward them.

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Speaker 3: Once again, the.

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Speaker 2: Brothers yelled and waved their shirts, doing everything.

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Speaker 3: To be seen.

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Speaker 2: For a moment, it felt like rescue was finally within reach,

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But just as before, the helicopter passed overhead, leaving as

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quickly as it had around.

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Speaker 3: Still, Kyle kept praying. Then unexpectedly, the.

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Speaker 2: Helicopter turned it circled back towards them. The brothers looked

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pleadingly at the sky, their faces filled with urgency and hope.

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This time felt different, This time felt like an answer

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to prayer. The helicopter slowed as it approached, flying lower

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and closer, until at last it hovered directly above them.

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Speaker 1: We didn't think they saw us, but they did circle back,

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US Coast Guard, and they jumped out of the helicopter.

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we were all okay. They called in for a sheriff's

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boat to come pick us up, so that sheriff's boat

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arrived about thirty minutes later, and we just swam with

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this Coastguard and then we got on the boat, and

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even that boat, which with a much larger share his vote,

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that was getting rocked around quite a bit.

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Speaker 2: Finally, the three brothers were taken to the shore. When

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they made it back, they were not only met by

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medical personnel and news cameras, but by their families, who

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had spent hours not knowing whether they were alive or dead. Kyle, Kevin,

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and Michael were checked medically, given fluids, warmed up, and

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released soon afterward. They were sunburned, shaken, and cold in

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a way they had not expected cold to feel in

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South Florida waters. But they were alive. Their gratitude was overwhelming.

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But there was still something Kyle and his brothers didn't know,

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and this is why Kyle still speaks of that day

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with the kind of awe reserved for things that defy explanation.

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Speaker 1: What we found out was the boat actually had gone

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perfectly straight into shore, nobody steering it. It could have

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gone out to sea and ran out of fuel down

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a Cuba, and it could have gone anywhere. But it

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had gone perfectly straight in the shore where it crashed

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four miles out. And it was somebody else out on

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the water who had just been a little bit closer

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to shore when he saw this boat full of fishing

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gear and nobody driving it, and he was the one

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that alerted the authorities.

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Speaker 2: Kyle and his brothers couldn't believe it. Almost like Glassie

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the dog, their boat had motored straight into the shore

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as if to get them help. The brothers knew it

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was more than luck. It was more than a boat

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running ashore. The brothers knew it was divine intervention. And

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as they thought about the miracle they'd experienced, the timing

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of everything felt impossible to dismiss. Too many precise things

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aligned at exactly the right moment. As soon as the

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authorities were alerted, they contacted Michael's wife, Amy, Amy and

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Michael had previously gone fishing together, many times, returning to

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their favorite spot without fail.

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Speaker 1: She was actually supposed to be with us that day,

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but she was not feeling well, so she decided to

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stay home, which we look back was a miracle because

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she knew where we fished. She was able to tell

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the authorities, and that helped them in that search process.

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Speaker 2: Had Amy gone with the brothers that day as planned,

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no one would have had a clue where to look

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for them. And not only that, imagine if Amy had

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gone treading water for three and a half hours, had

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already pushed three healthy men to their limits, for someone

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seven months pregnant, the outcome could have been very different.

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boat had gone straight to the shore and was discovered

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so quickly, helicopters were deployed while there was still daylight,

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and after missing the brothers once, the coastguard came back

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and found them in a sea vast enough to hide

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them forever. Kya later found out that when the authorities

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had called his twin brothers family, they had immediately contacted

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Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and.

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Speaker 1: They had a prayer hotline, and so one of the

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first things they did was call and have a team

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of people praying for us.

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Speaker 2: So many prayers had led up to this rescue. But

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for Kyle, the miracle was not only that he survived.

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It was what had happened to him while he had

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been waiting to be found out there in the deep,

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turbulent sea.

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Speaker 1: What happened in that water for me personally was even

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more significant. I had been in a season of deep

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discipleship at my church with our pastor or associate pastor.

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He had been pouring into my life in a really

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special way. In some weeks we would be together seven

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days a week just doing life together, discipleship, Bible study,

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and I would say would have said I was a

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Christian at that moment. I think from my lips I

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would have said that. But it was in the water

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that went from my lips to my heart to truly

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surrender my life to him. And that was a transforming

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day for me. And out of that committed my life

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and service to him in ministry. And so now almost

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eighteen years later, I've been serving with Wickliffe Bible Translators,

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and yeah, it's been amazing.

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Speaker 2: God was not finished with Kyle that day.

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Speaker 1: He had a greater purpose for me in my life

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to serve him, to glorify him and what I would

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do following that accident.

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Speaker 2: And God wasn't finished with his brothers either, because the

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rescue didn't only spare their lives, It changed them. It

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strengthened their bond as brothers, It deepened their faith. It

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turned a fishing trip into a testimony none of them

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could have imagined. And this is the part Kyle never

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gets over not just that they survived, but that mercy

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seemed to move toward them from every direction at once,

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through timing, through people, through prayer, through the unexplainable path

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of an empty boat cutting straight toward land, and in

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the middle of the waves, when fear was deepest and

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hope was smallest, that mercy became personal. Because the greatest

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miracle for Kyle that day was not simply that his

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body was rescued from the sea. It was that, in

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a moment of utter helplessness, his soul was rescued too.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Such an amazing miracle story in so many ways. And

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I feel like they need to name this boat Lassie

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after this.

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Speaker 3: I think that's pretty fitting.

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Speaker 4: And if kids don't know who Lassie is long ago,

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I think it was like our parents' generation. I used

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to watch Reasons of It, but was a TV show

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about this dog that would always save the day, go

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get help. Last right, Yeah, Timmy's in the well, Lassie

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you'd be like rough and go get to me.

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Speaker 2: But it is very fitting because they would always send

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Lassie out to go get help.

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Speaker 3: And that's exactly what this boat did. I mean the

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boat did.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's incredible, Like you think about if the angle

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had just changed even slightly from four miles out, who

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knows where this boat would have gone.

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Speaker 3: Who knows how this would have ended.

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Speaker 4: So true.

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Speaker 3: But something else interesting.

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Speaker 2: We didn't mention in the story is that when this

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boat shows up on shore without anybody on it and

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it's very unusual, at first, they didn't know what to

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think other than maybe this is a crime scene.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we actually have a SoundBite from Kyle about that,

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so let's play that, okay.

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Speaker 1: We later found out that when they found it, they

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treated it as a potential homicide case, so they didn't

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want to enter the boat and move anything around before

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they could find out what was going on. So they

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did finally enter the boat. They found our cell phones,

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probably flip phones back in two thousand and seven, and

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called our family members and called my mom first and said, hey,

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we found your son's boat. Everybody, but he's missing. And

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that's all they told my mom. Three of our four

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boys were missing.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 4: I can't even imagine a phone call like that. And

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I am so relieved for this mother, oh that she

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didn't have to lose her boys.

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Speaker 2: I know I have four kids too, and I cannot

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imagine losing three of them, it would be so tragic,

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so awful, and yet because of God's mercy, they were

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actually able to turn this into something really positive for

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their family. Kyle said, they're all a lot closer now

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than they were before this experience, and I mean it

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completely changed the trajectory of his life.

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Speaker 3: Dedicated his life to God. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And if you don't know what Wickliffe Bible Translators is,

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it's an organization that translates the Bible into languages that

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don't yet have access to it. So here's Kyle talking

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about it.

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Speaker 1: Our founder was in Guatemala as a Spanish Bible salesman,

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and he quickly realized that people didn't speak Spanish. And

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it was one gentleman from that community that said, if

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your God is great, why doesn't he speak our language?

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And that totally rocks him. I had no idea the

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scale of how many languages there were in the world

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and little to no access to God's word. And so

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our founder went on to actually translate this Bible was

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the ketchikw Bible in Guatemala, and then later after that

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found it Wickliffe. And there's over seven thousand languages in

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the world. Today, and there's still thousands that don't have

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the full council of God's word. And so if you

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don't have a Bible in your own language, a language

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that you think and you dream and you pray, and

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it's hard to fully understand it and then fully see

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that transformation.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that is crazy. I didn't even know there were

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that many languages. I didn't either, And what a cool

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mission to be able to bring the Bible to all

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of these people who would never be able to read

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it otherwise. Yeah, and you think about it, like Kyle

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may not have even gone into this career if it hadn't.

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Speaker 3: Been here that day in the water. It's just amazing

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how God works.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and let's talk about what happened in the water

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that day, because first of all, I'm so glad Amy

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didn't go into that water with those guys.

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Speaker 2: I know, you think about her morning, she wakes up sick.

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She was probably super disappointed that she couldn't go. She

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had to miss out all the fun. But if she

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had gone, oh my goodness, Like I've gone swimming when

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I was pregnant.

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Speaker 3: It is not as easy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I imagine treading water and somebody hands you

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a bowling ball, like, yeah, seriously, it's so hard.

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Speaker 3: It would not I don't know, it would not have

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turned out well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I was thinking about that, and I thought,

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you know, we can kind of all learn from that,

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because how many times do you have your day planned

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out or your life planned out?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then God.

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Speaker 4: Has a different idea of how things should go, or

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things just don't go the way you think they should go,

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and pretty soon you look back at it.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes it takes a few years and you can see why.

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Speaker 4: But in high yeah, you can see God's plan all

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along and see how he guided you and helped you

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the whole time.

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Speaker 3: Right, And like, think about these brothers.

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Speaker 2: They're like out in the water probably thinking like why

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is this happening? Why would God allow this to happen?

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And yet they received this amazing miracle.

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Speaker 3: I mean the.

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Speaker 2: Fact that these helicopters found them with this choppy water,

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there were all these white caps.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not like it was hey.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Kyle even mentioned that it was a blessing

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that he happened to have a bright red shirt.

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Speaker 3: On yeah at day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you think about like a gray shirt or brown, Yeah, and.

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Speaker 4: You combine all of that with the boat right, and

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when you just look at all of it together, it's

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impossible to not see this as a miracle.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely a miracle.

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Speaker 2: You know. I have gone deep sea fishing one time,

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and there's a reason I went.

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Speaker 3: One time.

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Speaker 2: We were in the Dominican Republic and we went deep

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sea fishing and they called U the day before and said, hey,

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we need to cancel and postpone U till later than

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the week. The waves are too big. And we're like, okay, well,

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our only available day is tomorrow. And they thought about

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it for a minute. They're like, okay, we could do that. Well,

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I didn't realize that no one was supposed to go

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out the next day. But they didn't want to lose

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their money. They knew it was then or not never. Yeah,

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and they didn't tell us that, so they took us

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out deep sea fishing. Oh my goodness, these waves were

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massive and everyone in the boat was throwing up and

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it was just so terrifying and we were just like,

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take us back, this is awful.

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Speaker 3: We get back and they're.

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Speaker 2: Like, oh, hey, somebody died here. Their boat capsized yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Right there in that same dan.

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capsized and we're.

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Speaker 3: Like, oh, that's horrible, Oh my gosh, it.

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Speaker 2: Was so tragic, but experiencing what it feels like to

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be among those massive waves, yeah, I don't know how

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they swam through that, especially without life jackets. Yeah three, and.

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Speaker 3: They don't either.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 4: And by the way, Emily, you could have been on

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the Miracle files, So don't.

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Speaker 3: Do that again. I'll try not to. I don't want

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to be on the Miracle file. No, you don't. Probably.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the miracles are amazing and people are always

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grateful for what they go through. But yeah, let's try

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to avoid situations like that anyway. But I also wanted

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to say that there are lessons in every one of

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our stories for people to learn, and I hope our

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listeners are listening for those, because, for example, in this story,

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I think there's a clear lesson where your life jackets?

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Speaker 3: Where are your life jackets?

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Speaker 2: So so, Anna's so interesting that Kyle mentioned that right

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before their boat capsized, he had this thought, we need

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to get our life jackets, and then he just waited.

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And it's like, if you get those properties from.

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Speaker 4: The hotels feeling act fast act and not wait.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Yep, it's true.

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Speaker 4: Well, thank you everyone for listening today, and thank you

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so much to our listeners who have reached out to

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us through social media or email. Don't hesitate to reach

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out to us because we love it. We love getting

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to meet you and you do. As always, please leave

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us review if you'd be so kind, and make sure

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to share this podcast with your friends and family and

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have a wonderful week. Thank you for joining us. If

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you have a miracle to share, contact us at the

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Miracle files dot com or find us on social media.

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Speaker 3: We release new episodes each Monday. Yes, so don't forget

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Miracle Mondays.

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Speaker 2: Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and YouTube for amazing

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video content as well.

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Speaker 4: Join us next time as we discover more of God's miracles,

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and don't forget to look for His light in your

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own lives.