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Woman treaded water for 10 hours after falling from ship, sang to stay alive until rescue
A 46-year-old British woman, Kay Longstaff, fell off of a Norwegian Cruise Line around midnight Saturday, plunging into the Adriatic Sea.
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No it wasen't. A real "miracle" would have been your imaginary sky daddy reaching down and keeping her from falling overboard in the first place. I wish they would not print stupid comments like this,but they always do.
As a dyed-in-the-wool atheist secular humanist, I've gotta say the word miracle doesn't bother me here. It doesn't take goddesses or magic wands to make a miracle of a suicidal jump from the seventh deck of a modern cruise ship into an oddly waveless, currentless Adriatic Sea; or the ten-hour endurance test waiting to be discovered, or rather more likely not. Seen this way, seems like the term describes making it against particularly long odds.