"So when this trip came up, I was prepared to do something out of the ordinary." (CNN)-- Deborah Scaling Kiley still can't break free from that night.

"It was my only proof that I had not gone mad." Frankl survived three years in Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps because he was driven by the thought of seeing his wife again. “If the sharks came back, he was dead.”With a surge of adrenaline Mr Cavanagh managed to pull himself in, and moments later, desperation turned to joy as he spotted a Russian cargo ship on the horizon.Sharks descended from kilometres away.

Ms Scaling Kiley died in 2012, but before her death she spoke publicly about the terrifying experience. They were falling apart emotionally and physically. Survivors also shared another trait -- strong family bonds. Experience and physical strength can lead to carelessness. Gonzales says he was sitting in his kitchen later that day when someone called him and told him to turn on his television. As the survivor of a near-death shipwreck and shark attack, she routinely speaks and writes about survival to a variety of audiences nationwide.

Deborah Scaling Kiley died August 13, 2012 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she had recently moved. Kiley, now 50, also had misgivings about going on the trip that almost cost her life. Even the act of prayer was a survival strategy. The attending surgeon, Dr. E.D. Survivors tend to be independent thinkers as well. She passed away 20 years later on August 13, 2012, at the age of 54.

She can't shake the screams, the image of the frothing water turning red, and the … Scaling-Kiley died of unknown causes in 2014, aged 54, while Cavanagh is a mariner in Massachusetts. Gardner, said the boy told him he was horrified not so much by the bite as the thought of being dragged down while in the grip of the shark.

She also made a ruthless decision. The water surrounding. Prayer in a desperate attempt to convince herself she hadn’t gone mad. Finally, in August of 2012, Deborah Scaling Kiley died in her new home at San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Gonzales declined when he learned that he would fly on a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, which had a spotty safety record. Deborah Scaling Kiley (January 21, 1958 – August 13, 2012) was an American sailor, author, motivational speaker, and businesswoman. Most of these survivors share the same traits, Gonzales says. The crew’s job was to sail up the east coast of America and drop the yacht off to its new owner in Florida.Ms Scaling Kiley was looking forward to the six-day, 2000km trip.Ms Scaling Kiley became a motivational speaker after the terrifying experience, until her death in 2012. The men bickered, the yacht's captain was lazy, and the ship wasn't properly maintained, Kiley says. "If you go busting into the wilderness with the attitude that you know what's going on, you're liable to miss important cues." Smith stated that the wind had been from the southeast the day before the attack, a condition that roils the bottom and results in poor visibility. A Discovery Channel documentary was made about her ordeal at sea and she continues to lecture about her experiences while raising money for domestic violence charities. How Did Deborah Scaling Kiley Die? According to his "Every day I wake up, and it's a new day and I'm happy," she said tearfully in the 2005 Discovery Channel series Discovery's Capsized: Blood in the Water is based on the harrowing true story of a sailing crew stuck adrift for days in shark-infested waters. Her mother was married several times and was a victim of domestic violence. Debbie was born Jan. 21, 1958, in Throckmorton. Kiley says she was also conditioned to be a survivor from her childhood. How did Miraculously, Deborah survived the 1982 boat crash that claimed three lives.

She sensed that they were going to die and she didn't want to waste precious energy fighting with them.

She still has flashbacks from that night at sea that come at the oddest of times.

The water surrounding the boat had turned a sickly shade of red, as the blood of her devoured crew mate rose to the surface.…

The loss hit her hard, but as she had done years before, she persevered and survived.

"These are people who tend to have a view of the world that does not paint them as a victim," he says. "You can never give up," she says. The Rambo types, a Navy SEAL tells Gonzales, are often the first to go. There was no doubt what got him. Using an old wooden door as a stretcher, neighbors carried the badly injured teen to a car and he was rushed to the hospital. Knowing what to do was not enough for him, Gonzales says. In 1979, a writing colleague asked him to fly with him on a flight from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California. That could, in his view, have been a critical factor, producing an instinctive reaction from the shark when it saw the flash of a swimmer's white leg. Twenty years later, one of them passed away. Then the crew began to die. But she says there's hardly a day where she still doesn't think about the accident. "They're not whiners who are always complaining about the bad things that are happening to them and expecting to get rescued." Deborah Scaling Kiley (1958-2012) is the author is The Sinking and No Victims, Only Survivors: 10 Lessons of Survival. There was no crying, nothing.

More than anything, she says, it was her will to live that helped her survive. "Surviving is about keeping your wits when everything is falling apart," she says.