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Skier survives avalanche by hanging onto tree

Last updated Monday, November 21, 2011 - 7:40am

SALT LAKE CITY -- A skier in Utah's backcountry has suffered minor injuries from an avalanche after he grabbed onto a tree.

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In this Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011 photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, Seaman Kendra Graves, right, and Petty Officer Robert Femia assist emergency personnel from Marathon, Fla., as they receive a patient from a boat that sank in the Florida Keys a day earlier. Seven people spent 20 hours floating in choppy seas off the Florida Keys before a commercial fisherman spotted their capsized pleasure boat, the U.S. Coast Guard said. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)

7 boaters survive 20 hours in Fla. waters; 1 dead

Jennifer Kay The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 10, 2011 - 2:56pm

MIAMI -- Seven people, including a 4-year-old girl, survived 20 hours at sea by clinging to their capsized boat and a small blue cooler after their vessel flipped during a fishing trip off the Florida Keys, officials said Monday.

An 80-year-old woman who was with the group is missing and presumed drowned.

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Bear attacks man after following dog inside home

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 1:10pm

NEWPORT, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania man attacked by a bear inside his home when the animal followed his dog inside has a newfound appreciation for the power of nature after he needed 70 staples and stitches to close the gaping wound on the back of his head.

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(The Associated Press) A man's car is brought out of a ravine in California. The man survived for six days after crashing when his family found him.

Family finds father six days after he crashed off of cliff

Esmeralda Bermudez Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, September 30, 2011 - 10:44pm

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VALENCIA, Calif. — By the fifth night, David La Vau was convinced he was going to die.

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Outdoors skills classes embraced by schools

Ray Sasser The Dallas Morning News

Last updated Friday, August 19, 2011 - 3:05pm

DALLAS -- Schools are starting fall sessions soon, and at least 11,000 Texas middle school and high school students are signed up for a different sort of physical education. Instead of basketballs and tennis rackets, they will use rods and reels and bows and arrows, courtesy of the Dallas Ecological Foundation, an affiliate of the Dallas Safari Club.

They even get school credit for the Outdoor Adventures education program, which is accredited by the Texas Education Association and also meets national education standards.

Since Outdoor Adventures was founded 10 years ago, DEF has spent nearly $1 million in support. DSC officials say the funds are spent on equipment, field trips, curriculum updates and a semiannual shooting event for 125 students at Greystone Castle near Mingus.

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ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner
Nicole Deppe, 8, of Woods Cross, makes a face at the sight of fake blood as her sister Jessica, 10, gives her a fake wound for an activity about properly treating injuries as part of the 4-H Survivor Camp at the Davis County Fairgrounds in Farmington on Wednesday. See video of survivor camp at www.standard.net

4-H camp teaches survival skills

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, July 22, 2011 - 2:41pm

FARMINGTON -- Once the whistle blew, the miniature marshmallows began flying.

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Man survives 100-foot drop

Brad W. Gary Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 9:06am

LEWISTON, Idaho -- A Clarkston man survived an apparent jump from a Lewiston railroad bridge Tuesday afternoon, though he remained hospitalized in critical condition after the fall.

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Steve Sloneker, 65, left, and Ross Anderson, 63, both from Sonora, CA, listen to a representative of the U.S. consulate, unseen, after surviving the capsized fishing vessel, the Erik, in San Felipe, Mexico, Thursday July 7, 2011. Seven U.S. tourists are still missing four days after their boat capsized near this town as the Mexican navy and the U.S. Coast Guard expand their search in the Gulf of California. Most of the 27 passengers on board the ship were Northern California men who traveled to the gulf for an annual Independence Day fishing trip. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Survivor recounts capsized scene: 'It was pandemonium'

Julia Prodis Sulek, Matthias Gafni San Jose Mercury News

Last updated Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 12:45pm

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- As the storm tossed the 115-foot fishing boat in and out of giant swells in the Sea of Cortez, the anchors slammed against the bow of the boat, making it difficult for Dave Levine and his two bunkmates to sleep.

"We had trust in the crew and the ship," said Levine, a 53-year-old experienced fisherman who for years kept his own boat in Bodega Bay.

They shouldn't have. On Wednesday, four days after a chartered fishing boat capsized and sank, the search continued for seven missing passengers, mostly from Northern California, and questions swirled around the crew's decision to sail despite warnings of bad weather.

While some of the survivors' relatives say the captain has been arrested, Mexican authorities contacted by this newspaper on Wednesday insisted there have been no arrests. Divers on Thursday are expected for the first time to search the wreckage that rests roughly 200 feet below.

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