You need to read a little about the boats taht have survived storms
with severely injured people aboard...in one case without any
coachhouse left standing.


Yes and Rheinhold Messner dragged himself by his hands across a Himalayan
glacier for three days with frozen stumps for feet and went on to solo Mt
Everest and ski across Antarctica. Doug Scott downclimbed an 8,000 meter
Himalayan peak on his kness because of two broken legs. We shouldn't expect
anything less of Terry. Right.