Austin Appelbee. a 13-year-old Western Australian boy, swam four kilometres through dangerous seas for four hours to save his family after they were swept out while kayaking. He ran another two kilometres to find his mothers phone to call for help after coming ashore. His mother, 12-year-old brother, and eight-year-old sister were stranded at sea for more than eight hours before being rescued by emergency services.
Channel Seven captured 13 yr old Austin Appelbee’s ordeal best.
“It was like four kilometres, but the kayak kept on taking in water. I was fighting rough seas because I thought I saw something in the water and I was really scared and I was thinking, I was just thinking in my head thinking I was going to make it through. But I was also thinking about all my friends at school and friends of my Christian youth.
A”nd yeah, I just said, alright, not today. Not today, not today. I have to keep on going. And so there’s straps on the kayak for if you want to put stuff in the boat. I tied that to my life jacket so I could keep on putting the kayak, but that didn’t help. Just springing me out further. And so I untied the actual strap from the boat. I started swimming with just my life jacket. Then after a while I found out that didn’t work. So I forgot my life jacket tied the rope to my foot and still that didn’t work. So I either untied the life jacket and I did just swim to shore.
“… Just keep on swimming. Just keep on swimming. I don’t think it was actually me did. It was God. The whole time I kept on praying, I kept on praying and I said to God, I’ll get baptised, I’ll get baptised and all that. And I went to church on Sunday.
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