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- Sailing on the West Coast, a massive storm came up suddenly (gale-to-hurricane force winds which ended up knocking out power to 100,000 homes on the lower mainland), the jib sail tore and slid up to the top of the mast, was a huge flag that was very nearly pulled our boat over with a lee shore and an engine that wouldn't start. We rectified the situation but not before someone called in a mayday on us from shore, so we had all sorts of coast guard and fishing boats come to our rescue. That was probably the closest call.
- My parents tell me when I was a kid I thought it would be a good idea to put all sorts of those weighted doughnut-rings on my arms and legs and jump into the deep end of the local pool. I have the vaguest recollection of this, but I had to be rescued.
- Cross-country skiing in Kananaskis, was going down a steep hill with a bend at the end, lost an edge and slid to the lip of a drop off into a ravine just before I was able to slow down enough to grab on to something.
- Probably a few times while driving. In fact just the other day I was a passenger in my buddy's car and almost got t-boned coming out of a parking lot by a guy who didn't have his lights on at night. Have slid out on black ice on the highway before, also very nearly got rear-ended into an intersection on Crowchild while stopped at a red light.