For this mini-drama is occurring in the uninhabited Auckland Islands, 465 km south of Bluff. Right now, though, he is a long way from office towers and tarseal. Nick Gales is a sea lion specialist based at the Department of Conservation Science and Research headquarters in Wellington. The sea lion walks on into the gnarled “goblin” forest, with the scientist following. The syringe dart drops to the ground and is collected. Raising herself up on powerful foreflippers, she sniffs the brown pup at her side as if to reassure it, then begins wandering towards the nearby rata forest with a steady rolling gait. The animal, full-grown and weighing 130 kg, scarcely flinches, but she seems to know that something strange is happening. P000phhh! A syringe with a fluffy tail bites into golden fur and discharges its contents into the muscular flank of a recumbent female sea lion. That was shown to me and I will never doubt that for the rest of my life.Written by Neville Peat Photographed by Neville Peat I don’t know what it is, but there is a power greater than me. In his post, Thompson wrote: “I’m a believer that there is a higher power now. There was no moon, I mean it was pitch black,” he said. “I can’t imagine being in the water with shorts and a T-shirt at night. “Even putting on a wet suit, being prepared, getting in that water, and swimming to the platform was horrendous,” Paul Amaral, president of towing company Channel Watch Marine told KABC.
With no one else for Scott Thomson to turn to, the seal became his “best buddy.” Getty Images And I’m like, shouting at the sky,” he told the station.Ĭrew members on the rig provided first aid before the Coast Guard got him to a hospital, where he was treated for hypothermia. “It started getting brighter and I’m just like, I’m crying. “It was like he was telling me, Hey, Dude! Get your a– in gear and get going! I was starting to run out of things to say to him, so I sang him Grateful Dead songs and told him the same corny dad jokes that I tell my kids,” he wrote.īuoyed by the cheering creature, Thompson felt determined to swim to an oil platform, which he reached after about five hours, KABC reported. He said the little pup bumped him several times in the butt as if to prod him on. Scott Thompson said he left the boat’s motor running and it quickly got away from him after he fell off the vessel. He’d bob up and down looking at me, then disappear under water, pop back up, and look at me,” Thompson recounted. With no one else for Thomson to turn to, the seal became his “best buddy,” he said. “Just then, a little seal popped its head out of the water right next to me, and looked at me like, Dude! What are you doing out here?” “When I heard that splash, my heart jumped out of my chest, and I was like, F-! A shark!” he recalled in a lengthy post on Peter Maguire’s blog “Sour Milk.” Getty Images/EyeEmīut he said all of a sudden, he heard a big splash - which he assumed was a shark. A friendly harbor seal showed up in the nick of time and helped get Scott Thompson to safety. “I was devastating myself, through my mind, just picturing my girls and my son growing up without me, and my wife, you know, not having a husband to support her,” Thompson told KABC. While in survival mode, he said, he kept repeating, “You gotta get home to your family.” “The panic set in, it was like, ‘Wow! This is a pretty heavy situation,’” he said, adding that he kept telling himself to keep swimming. Thompson said that’s when he began to fear for his life. “And I just started swimming as hard as I could, towards the boat, and it really didn’t take too long to realize like, it’s getting farther, I’m not getting closer.” “That’s when I realized, like, ‘OK, we got problems,’” he said.
Thompson said he left the boat’s motor running and it quickly got away from him. Today is the day I’m going to die,’” Thompson, who was wearing nothing but his shorts and T-shirt at the time, told KABC-TV. “I thought to myself, ‘Great, this is how I’m going to die. Scott Thompson, a sea urchin diver, blamed a lapse in judgment for the mishap that sent him falling off his boat into the Santa Barbara Channel in the middle of the night last month. Truck spills nearly 300,000 tomatoes on California highway after it overturnedĪ California man thought he would die when he fell off his fishing boat and into the frigid Pacific Ocean - but a friendly harbor seal showed up in the nick of time and helped get him to safety. Power bills sent to McKinney fire victims who lost their homesĬase of missing California woman Jolissa Fuentes being treated as criminal matterįormer bullied teen wins $1M lawsuit against California school district
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