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Welcome back to the Alien Space Sheep Talk Show podcast.
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In case you’re just joining us, you’re listening to the Alien Space Sheep Talk Show podcast
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with Emma Hickins and Trevor Gear.
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Dances and then another lady, Edith Cavell, a British nurse working an occupied Belgium
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during World War I. She treated a wounded soldier from both sides. She lost her life by fire
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in Squad after running an underground network that helped over 200 soldiers escape to neutral
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territory. And then the last one on these, because these people are incredible in their
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bravery, was sadly another aeroplane incident accident in America in 1982 in Washington.
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There’s a film of this on YouTube and it’s an air flora to flight 90. Basically, you
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took off in a snow storm and the wings, although they’ve been de-iced, the time it took
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them to take off meant they’d iced up again. Long story short, it couldn’t get heights.
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So I decided to go down, it hits a bridge over the Potomac River and went into the water,
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completely underneath. And there’s actually, there is a knock that I’m saying is good
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to watch, but it’s quite an interesting story to see what happened. Anyway, five or six people
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surfaced pretty quickly. It was in the winter. I had an idea it was in May, but it was a
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rough snow storm. Anyway, the river was completely solidly frozen, but they surfaced, although
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the plane was underneath. They were there, boats were trying to get out to them. It was
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such a difficult thing. And indeed, a couple of men dived in to the water to try and help
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them. And the helicopter came and this 50-year-old passenger, Arland Williams, repeatedly gave
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up the rescue helicopter’s lifeline to other passengers. He lifted one of them at a time,
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and he insisted he would be last. And in the end, when the thing came down for him, he was
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gone. So again, this man sacrificed his life. So yeah, most friendships don’t entail sacrificing
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your life. But I’d like to carry on here and talk about something we’ve looked at before,
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and that’s extreme sports. Now, let me ask you a question there, because we’re looking
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at some of these extreme sports. Is it right, do you think, even within a free society,
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where you do what you want to do, basically, in terms of what sports you might do? But is it right?
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So risk your life in a dangerous sport, when in my tin tail, sacrificing the life of people
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sent out to save you. There was actually, before you answer that, there was a case on this,
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at the moment, really, in the Maldives last week, five people, five divers, including a very
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experienced professor, a lady, and her daughter, plus the boat captain and another man and then
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another lady as well. They went down 160 feet by an at-hole in the Maldives, and they went into a cave
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system, which sounds to me like a pretty dangerous thing to do, even if it is not necessarily considered
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extreme. Anyway, sadly, they didn’t surface. And then a body was found when they started to
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dive, as they started to search. The body on its own, they didn’t find, I haven’t still haven’t found
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the other four. They’re sending people down to try and find the bodies to bring them back for their
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loved ones. Sadly, one of the divers in the rescue squad has also died now. And the upshot of this
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is that there’s a very elite squad of divers in Finland have now gone over there to try and help
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to get the bodies back. Now, this highlights the problem, doesn’t it, when people do things which most
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of us would say are very dangerous. Right, if you want to risk your own life for the adrenaline
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buzz and fine, but some people have got to clear up the mess or try and rescue you. What’s your opinion
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is it right that we should have that freedom of choice to do anything we want to do, because people
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will always come and try and save you if it goes wrong. Yeah, when I was younger, I would say, you know,
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you’ve got to send people to try and find or save a life. Right, but now I’m older and I’m wiser.
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I think if you wander off on your own or whatever, or in a group, you go rock climbing, for instance,
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or skydiving or whatever, you wander off hiking or whatever adventure, you know, that you
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wander off on. I think you’re taking a risk. I think you should stay where you are.
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Oh yeah, I’ve always been a huge advocate for just stay where you are. Where you going? What
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are you doing? I know I buried an adventurous wife who wants to do this and that and I said, listen,
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if you go friends that you can take with you. I don’t particularly feel like, I just enjoy the
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piece of being in a safe place. We’re going to take a short break now. We’re back shortly. You’ve been
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