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Americans saved from the top of the waterfall with a letter in a bottle
Curtis Wilson, his girlfriend and 13-year-old daughter decided to celebrate his father's day in nature. We chose the route in the Arroi-Seo-Seko Valley in California and went on a campaign. It was in June.
The tourist route ran through a 12-meter waterfall on the Arroio-Seko River. Seven years ago, Curtis Wilson was already passing this route and descended through the waterfall on the rope fixed on the rocks. But this time the ropes were not in place, and the tourists got stuck on the top of the waterfall.
It was impossible to go down in another way, and it is too dangerous to go back. The phone did not catch the signal. Tourists began to think about other ways to get out of the trap.
Wilson suggested sending a note with a request for help downstream in a bottle. His girlfriend just captured the form from the hotel, on which she wanted to keep an account in the card game.
On a piece of paper they wrote: “We are stuck here on the waterfall. Please send help. ” The note was put in a green bottle of water. “Help” was scratched from above and sent downstream.
To make it easier to notice, not far from their shelter, tourists laid out stones on the tent inscription SOS.
A few travelers found a bottle in a few hours. They reached the nearest tourist camp and reported a message. Those who were in the camp contacted the rescuers. After a few more hours, Wilson and his companions were noticed from the patrol helicopter (here the inscription SOS came in handy!). However, they had to spend the night on the rocks - when the tourists were discovered, it was already too dark for a rescue operation, and they were taken from the waterfall only when it was dawn.
Rescuers praised tourists for the idea with a message in a bottle. Otherwise, they noted, Wilson and his companions would have to look much longer.
Wilson's girl bought another bottle and is going to put a message into her again. But this time, not a request for help, but a declaration of love for him.