Friday, June 15, 2007
4 survive being swept into cave - Seattle P-I
... The five-member hiking group recounted their survival Thursday, expressing gratitude to rescuers, giving thanks and thinking about luck and fate.
The wave could have pulled them to sea, several said. They could have drowned had they been wearing their packs. Hypothermia could have overtaken them.
"You have to assume that somebody was looking over us," said Neil Peterson, 63, who started the Flexcar program in Seattle and is a former transit official.
The group had encountered what is called a surge channel -- a narrow gully where the force of waves rushing in and out is amplified as water is forced into the channel, smashing against the rocks and anything that floats. When the water sweeps back out, it sucks debris, logs, dropped backpacks -- even humans -- out to sea. ...
... The five-member hiking group recounted their survival Thursday, expressing gratitude to rescuers, giving thanks and thinking about luck and fate.
The wave could have pulled them to sea, several said. They could have drowned had they been wearing their packs. Hypothermia could have overtaken them.
"You have to assume that somebody was looking over us," said Neil Peterson, 63, who started the Flexcar program in Seattle and is a former transit official.
The group had encountered what is called a surge channel -- a narrow gully where the force of waves rushing in and out is amplified as water is forced into the channel, smashing against the rocks and anything that floats. When the water sweeps back out, it sucks debris, logs, dropped backpacks -- even humans -- out to sea. ...
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