Showing posts with label rapture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rapture. Show all posts
Sailors tell of agony in Christmas Island rescue
0 comments Friday, 20 May 2011A NAVY lieutenant has described how he cut a line to save a child attached to a drowned woman when an asylum seeker boat smashed into rocks on Christmas Island.
Sub-Lieutenant Jeremy Evain told the inquest in Perth yesterday he was on one of two boats sent from the patrol vessel HMAS Pirie to rescue people after their craft smashed against the rocks off Christmas Island's Rocky Point on December 15 last year.
The sailors battled waves, wind and rain to reach the cliff where the asylum seekers' craft smashed apart.
Sub-Lieutenant Jeremy Evain told the inquest in Perth yesterday he was on one of two boats sent from the patrol vessel HMAS Pirie to rescue people after their craft smashed against the rocks off Christmas Island's Rocky Point on December 15 last year.
The sailors battled waves, wind and rain to reach the cliff where the asylum seekers' craft smashed apart.
West Australian Coroner Alastair Hope is conducting the inquest on the deaths of 30 people from Iraq and Iran, and the likely deaths of 20 more people.
Sub-Lieutenant Evain said that as his boat rounded the point he saw the vessel being smashed on the rocks as people clung to it and others floated in the water, screaming for help.
''I observed the sea was throwing debris and people into the cliff face,'' the 22-year-old officer said.
The risk of debris blocking the intakes of the boat's engines meant they had to stand off and throw lines with attached lifebelts to people in the water, then pull them to the boats.
He saw dead bodies in the water, including a middle-aged woman just below the surface who was attached by a line to a child in a lifejacket floating on the surface. To rescue the child, he had to cut the line, he said.
Sub-Lieutenant Evain said he had to ignore cries for help from some people to concentrate on saving those he could.
The coxswain of the second rescue boat, Leading Seaman Jonathan West, said there was a strong smell of diesel and fuel-soaked survivors proved difficult to grasp and pull aboard.
Sub-Lieutenant Evain said that as his boat rounded the point he saw the vessel being smashed on the rocks as people clung to it and others floated in the water, screaming for help.
''I observed the sea was throwing debris and people into the cliff face,'' the 22-year-old officer said.
The risk of debris blocking the intakes of the boat's engines meant they had to stand off and throw lines with attached lifebelts to people in the water, then pull them to the boats.
He saw dead bodies in the water, including a middle-aged woman just below the surface who was attached by a line to a child in a lifejacket floating on the surface. To rescue the child, he had to cut the line, he said.
Sub-Lieutenant Evain said he had to ignore cries for help from some people to concentrate on saving those he could.
The coxswain of the second rescue boat, Leading Seaman Jonathan West, said there was a strong smell of diesel and fuel-soaked survivors proved difficult to grasp and pull aboard.
May 21st Doomsday: Does Harold Camping’s Ministry Have Money?
0 comments Thursday, 19 May 2011 May 21st, Doomsday is one of the hottest search topics in Google.
So in case you haven't heard by now, Harold Camping is the preacher who claims to have the calculations set on May 21, 2011 as The Judgment Day, Rapture Day, Doomstay -or whatever you want to call it. Camping's apocalypse hype is getting worldwide attention.
So in case you haven't heard by now, Harold Camping is the preacher who claims to have the calculations set on May 21, 2011 as The Judgment Day, Rapture Day, Doomstay -or whatever you want to call it. Camping's apocalypse hype is getting worldwide attention.
Harold Camping, 89, is a former civil engineer and Bible scholar. He is president of the religious non-profit Family Radio based in Oakland, California which fervently preaches the message about the end of the world, now days away. He and a caravan of trucks have been plastering over 5,000 billboards, spending millions of dollars to spread the message.
So, where do they get the funding for all this?
Tax returns indicate that the radio ministry raised a staggering $100 million dollars over the past seven years. The ministry also owns 66 radio stations worldwide valued at $72 million in 2009.
Not to mention donations have soared as well. The contribution comes from radio listeners, according to Tom Evans, board member of Family Radio.
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