{"id":5183,"date":"2019-04-04T06:23:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T10:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=5183"},"modified":"2019-04-04T06:23:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T10:23:28","slug":"life-saving-jeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2019\/04\/life-saving-jeans\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Saving Jeans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two brothers from Germany recently took a job where they had to pick up a rich guy&#8217;s yacht in New Zealand, and sail it all the way to Brazil for him.<\/p>\n<p>One of the brothers is 30-year-old Arne Murke.\u00a0 And they were off the coast of New Zealand when the main sail knocked him overboard.\u00a0 And he couldn&#8217;t get back to the boat.<\/p>\n<p>His brother tried to toss him a life preserver, but he couldn&#8217;t reach it.\u00a0 Then a huge swell carried him out to sea.\u00a0 But he was able to survive . . . by using his jeans as a FLOATATION DEVICE.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a trick they teach in the Navy.\u00a0 First you take them off and tie the ends of the pantlegs together into a knot.\u00a0 Then you pull them up and over the water to trap air inside, and hold the waist closed with your hands.<\/p>\n<p>Once there&#8217;s enough air in there, you can stick your head through the legs, and use your jeans like a life jacket to help you float and save energy.\u00a0 And if the air leaks out, you do it again.\u00a0 Arne ended up floating around with his jeans around his neck for about three-and-a-half hours before the Coast Guard spotted him.\u00a0 And the sea was pretty rough, so they&#8217;re not sure he would have made it without his jeans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oNTSoKg6xHM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How to do it ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 11:38:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2019\/04\/life-saving-jeans\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5184,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions\/5184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}