A DETERMINED sailor escaped certain death by swimming through storming seas without a life jacket for SEVEN hours — propelled by thoughts of his 2-year-old granddaughter!
“I wanted to see her again and hug her again,” says David Thompson, 68, about his inspiration.
“And I have a wife and a nice life. I didn’t want to die.”
The retired engineer from Kalamazoo, Mich., was sailing solo on his 49-foot boat, the Enthalpy II, from St. Maarten to South Florida when conditions got nasty!
Fighting 20-mph winds and surging swells, David was rocked by a monster wave that swept him overboard.
Desperately, he tried to climb back into his boat, but conditions were too rough.
A second wave pulled off his life jacket — which was tethered to the boat!
As…
