
Man survived freezing waters after falling off his boat. He swam for five hours to safety
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An evening boat trip quickly turned life-threatening for one California man.
Scott Thompson, a commercial fisherman, took his boat out on the Santa Barbara Channel around 5 pm on January 26. Five hours of swimming later, he wound up on an oil platform with no boat.
Thompson wasn't fishing that day, but rather clearing his mind after recently losing a close friend.
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