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Old 04-15-2007, 08:55 AM  
TampaToker
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Coast guard cutter picked me and buddy up

Wow tell you about a humbling experience . We took my buddys boat out about 13 miles off shore. Seas were a bit choppy not to bad at the time. After a few hours of trolling fishing water was getting bad so we decided to head in. In a matter of 15 minutes sea went 3-5 feet to 7-9 feet waves. Now mind you we are in a 15ft boat so we tide are selfs to the boat in case one of us went over.

We got about 7 miles from shore when i shit you not a 12-15 swell came and lauched the boat in mid air. Thru my big as right out of the boat. Lucky for me we tied are selves off earlier to the boat. Battling the waves took me about 10 minutes to ass back to the boat. So as i got back on we fired the flares and called for coast guard help. About 35 minutes later a coast guard cutter came saftey guy came down like the shit you see on tv and picked us up one by one.

We both went to the hospital my buddy was all right. They game me some kind of warm iv because my body temperature dropped. I checked out fine but man i got serious rope burn around my waist from were i tied myself off with the rope.

Now when some shit like this happens to you makes you humble very quickly.
Those everyday problems you have aint as bad as you think lol. Needles to say my ass will be staying to shore for a while
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