Saved from the jaws of death
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DOLPHINS saved a former St Ives man and his daughter from a shark attack as they swam off the northern New Zealand coast. The bottlenose dolphins surrounded Rob Howes, 47, his daughter Niccy, 15, Helen Slade
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A school of Dolphins has saved a group of swimmers from a great white shark attack. The amazing rescue happened when lifeguard Rob Howes took his daughter and her friends for a swim off the northern New Zealand coast.
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BRISBANE, Australia - When Michael Brown was shot with a crossbow he couldn't use his cell phone to call for help. But he didn't need to - his handset stopped the bolt and likely saved his life...
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The implantable device won U.S. approval Monday for use as a temporary measure to keep alive patients on the verge of death while they wait for transplants.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A man who decided to swim to safety after the boat he was on capsized about 15 miles offshore was rescued Sunday after spending 24 hours in the Atlantic Ocean, the U.S. Coast Guard said. His four fishing companions also were rescued.
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Five people are rescued after eight days adrift in a liferaft off the north Cornwall coast.
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Got a terminal illness? Hooray. In the movies, looming death means last-minute adventures and loads of uplifting life lessons
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Jair Jurrjens saved the Detroit Tigers from what could have been a terrible day.
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A woman is saved from a river after she jumped in to rescue her dog - weeks after another woman died in the same river.
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Alan Alda almost died in 2003. He was in a remote area of Chile, doing an episode of "Scientific American Frontiers," and he developed an intestinal obstruction that came within hours of killing him. It was his good fortune that he survived the whole ordeal.
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SUMMERFORD, Ohio - A woman says her life was likely saved when she answered a hang-up phone call. Mary Dhume of Ohio was watching television Monday night when the phone in the next room rang...
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Doctors are reinventing how they treat sudden cardiac arrest, which is fatal 95 percent of the time. A report from the border between life and death.
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Rescue staff save the newest member of one of the endangered indigenous tribes in the tsunami-struck Andaman islands.
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A pleasure boat which struck an object on the River Thames is saved from sinking by emergency crews.
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If a dog is man's best friend, a disabled U.S. Air Force veteran showed the feeling is mutual by saving his drowning pet with mouth-to-snout resuscitation and CPR.
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Five people were rescued by coastguards today after spending eight days at sea in a life-raft. The survivors were picked up off the coast of Cornwall this morning and are being treated in hospital, a coastguard ...