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Swim to my voice.<\/em> The words washed over me like the waves I was hopelessly fighting, salt water spraying my face. My legs were cramping from the exertion of staying afloat. But I kept moving. I had to.<\/p>\n

I was stranded in the Gulf of Mexico. What would happen if I stopped fighting the terrible current? Would I be swept out further into the gulf, my body never even found?<\/p>\n

I was miles from shore. It was dark. I scanned the horizon, looking for a sign that help was on the way. All I saw were the blinking red lights of a cell tower and the faint beam of a lighthouse, both miles farther than I could swim.<\/p>\n

I bobbed up and down with the waves, kicking my legs and struggling to get a steady flow of air. I\u2019m a nurse, so I\u2019m no stranger to crisis situations. I\u2019m used to do-or-die, life-or-death scenarios. It\u2019s my job to keep a level head. But I\u2019d never been the one in danger before. Not till now. Not like this.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d been adrift since sunset. It had been a wonderful day. I\u2019d met my friend Rusty for dinner in Tampa. We had plans to go to a restaurant in town, but Rusty had an impulse. \u201cLet\u2019s take my boat out and watch the sunset from the water first.\u201d It was a warm summer evening and the smooth, sparkling surface of Tampa Bay looked so peaceful, so tempting.<\/p>\n

We left from the St. Petersburg marina and sailed toward the gulf under the Skyway Bridge and then stopped south of Fort De Soto Park, the last spit of land before it\u2019s nothing but open water. We watched the clouds turn orange and pink. The faint scent of fish lingered in the air.<\/p>\n

Our stomachs growled. The sky darkened. Time to head back to land.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to cool off in the water first,\u201d I said. I lowered myself halfway down the ladder on the side of the boat and let my legs dangle. All at once, a swell surged up and knocked me into the bay.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey!\u201d I yelled, waving at Rusty up above me. \u201cI fell overboard! Throw me a line!\u201d<\/p>\n

Rusty tossed a rope over the side, but the current was surprisingly fast. It whisked me away from the boat. I swam as hard as I could. Then I heard a splash. I craned my neck to see…Rusty?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d I yelled, my limbs already tiring from fighting the current. \u201cYou should stay with the boat!\u201d Too late. We were both good swimmers\u2014I\u2019d been a certified diver for more than 20 years\u2014but the tide was going out. Within seconds, the boat was little more than a tiny dot in the distance.<\/p>\n

Clare, don\u2019t panic, <\/em>I thought. I\u2019d learned that panic was the deadliest factor in any emergency. But how could I be calm now? My muscles ached, it was almost dark, we were rapidly being carried out into the gulf. And nobody knew where we were.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to keep our eyes on the Egmont Key lighthouse,\u201d Rusty shouted over the waves, pointing to a white light south of us. \u201cOnce we get past it, we need to swim toward the cell tower at Fort De Soto Park.\u201d<\/p>\n

I looked at the flickering lights in the distance, one white, one red, both seemingly as far away as the stars beginning to twinkle in the sky above. \u201cI don\u2019t know if I can make it,\u201d I gasped.<\/p>\n

\u201cClare, you have to,\u201d Rusty said. \u201cDon\u2019t give up.\u201d<\/p>\n

I wanted to berate him. Why had he played the hero and jumped off the boat in the first place? Why hadn\u2019t he simply stayed on board and navigated toward me? He knew better! But I couldn\u2019t waste energy dwelling on it\u2014I had to stay calm. Focused. My survival depended on it.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

My head dipped underwater and for a moment I lost sight of Rusty. The current pulled us slowly apart. \u201cWhere are you?\u201d I yelled. \u201cI\u2019m scared!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m right here, Clare. Swim to my voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

He sounded so far off! I couldn\u2019t see him. His voice became fainter and fainter, till I heard nothing at all.<\/p>\n

I jerked. Something slimy brushed against my leg. The gulf was full of tarpon at this time of year, and tarpon was one of the bull shark\u2019s favorite prey. I tried to swim away, tried not to panic. Thunder rumbled in the distance, and storm clouds suddenly obscured the stars. Swim to my voice, <\/em>Rusty had said. But I had nothing to guide me now. I was alone.<\/p>\n

Not totally alone. I took a deep breath. God, <\/em>I prayed, it\u2019s you and me now. I\u2019ll fight with everything I have to get back to shore, but I need you to keep me safe. I can\u2019t do it on my own. I need to hear your voice.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019d never prayed like that before. My girlfriend and I had laughed at a singles meeting at church just a week earlier when the group leader asked us to share our testimony. Testimony? <\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019d balked. I was a regular churchgoer and faith was important to me, but I was the practical one in the family. If something needed to be done, I didn\u2019t just pray about it. I made sure it got done.<\/p>\n

Now I was desperate. I was in survival mode. The prayer had come so naturally to me, with such conviction, like an inner voice, and for the first time since I\u2019d drifted from the boat, I felt at ease. As I moved, a piece of slippery seaweed got tangled up in my hands. That\u2019s the culprit, <\/em>I thought. Not a hungry shark after all.<\/p>\n

I swam with all the energy I could muster, listening for that inner voice. But my muscles cramped, and I knew that without liquids, the cramping would only get worse. I could experience kidney failure. I looked up at the sky, a hazy moon now hanging almost directly overhead. It must be nearly midnight.<\/em><\/p>\n

A flash of lightning lit the sky. All at once, the storm clouds let loose a torrent of rain. The winds picked up. Two-foot waves churned and crashed over my head. Raindrops stung my face like a hundred needles. I fought to stay afloat as the salt water flooded into my mouth.<\/p>\n

Lord, is this the end?<\/em><\/p>\n

My leg muscles clenched. I kicked my feet and stayed above the surface, but I couldn\u2019t hold on much longer. I\u2019d never felt so exhausted in my life. I\u2019d promised to keep fighting. But what if I stopped? Would God still help me? Or would I die in the silent waters of the gulf?<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know what to do but let go. I had no more strength. Wherever the current took me, that\u2019s where I\u2019d go. I felt the tide pulling me out. I stopped kicking. I bobbed up and down in the waves like a piece of driftwood.<\/p>\n

The rain stopped. The waves went down. The water became calm. I floated on my back, just drifting, letting go. The moon was bright and full, and the brilliance of the stars enthralled me. I had never felt so peaceful.<\/p>\n

My foot brushed against something solid. Sand! I pressed down with both feet. I\u2019d found a sandbar. I\u2019m only five foot two, so I had to work to stay on. But it meant land must be very near. I bobbed in the current and peered into the dark around me. Off in the distance, I saw two faint white lights. The lights moved closer. A car\u2019s headlights!<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u201cHelp!\u201d I screamed. I waved my arms. The lights kept moving. \u201cOver here!\u201d I yelled. But the lights disappeared. Had the driver even heard me? Was I just hallucinating?<\/p>\n

Then, as if in a dream, the lights returned. They were pointed right at me. \u201cI see you!\u201d a man\u2019s voice called out. \u201cSwim to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t!\u201d I shouted. \u201cI can\u2019t see anything!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSwim to my voice!\u201d he shouted back. Swim to my voice. <\/em>I gathered all my strength and pushed off the sandbar. I was back in the open water, swimming with all I had left.<\/p>\n

The man\u2019s arms wrapped around me. He\u2019d walked out into the water chest-deep and pulled me to shore. He guided me to his truck and wrapped me in a blanket.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have no idea how lucky you are,\u201d he said. Rusty had made it to shore and called 911 a half hour earlier. The Coast Guard had sent out an alert that I was missing, and my rescuer, a park ranger asleep at home, had heard the call on his radio and started looking for me. It was 3:15 a.m.\u2014I\u2019d been in the bay almost seven hours, an amount of time verging on unsurvivable in open water.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou really hung on, didn\u2019t you?\u201d the ranger said. I just nodded. I couldn\u2019t explain that my survival wasn\u2019t dependent on hanging on but letting go.<\/p>\n

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