We couldn't find out. KILEY: There were three people who died, two people who survived. He suddenly thought he saw land and jumped off the side of the boat.

It was in the bush, breaking out branches off trees, pulling out small trees. I passionately believed in what I was doing. For days, the party floated on a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina, without food, water, or emergency equipment, The Sun reported.

They accept the evidence of their senses.". Mark is still holding on, and eventually he just lets go. The chances of surviving capture by the Khmer Rouge were almost zero, but Chris Moon and his companions beat the odds. They were falling apart emotionally and physically. Gonzales cites the story of Viktor Frankl, author of "Man's Search for Meaning." It's interesting, people say the accident didn't slow me down, it actually sped me up. All right, what was the trip all about? KING: How much pain were you in?

The sharks moved on, but Kiley had already made a series of small decisions that helped save her life, she says.

MACDONALD: Hydraulic jack, crow bars.

He's written a book, "Jungle," he's part of the series "I Shouldn't Be Alive."

MOON: The fascinating thing was going back to research the program for discovery. Their epic battle for survival has now been turned into a new Discovery Channel film Capsized: Blood In The Water. Shark Survivor She covered herself with seaweed for warmth.

Mark heaves the canister off the boat and follows it into the ocean. They were killed by sharks -- one right underneath Kiley's dinghy, she says.

Very proud to have done it. She needed some sort of funeral,” said Deborah. Most of those who heeded the directions from security died, he says.

READ HER BOOK ABOUT HER NEAR DEATH ON THE SAIL BOAT ALBRATROS SOME YEARS AGO. And my sanity was a natural choice, because of worry, fear, they wear you down, they take energy from you.

A third crew member, a woman who suffered ghastly wounds to her leg when the yacht sank, soon died, Kiley says.

Right now "A.C. 360" with Anderson Cooper in New York. Pretty good title. I turned my Land Rover wheel and as I turned the vehicle, there was a cutoff group behind. MOON: Three days.

He's the author of the book "Jungle." Deborah Scaling Kiley was born January 21, 1958, in Throckmorton, Texas.

(END VIDEO CLIP) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm just going over for a minute, just to stretch my legs, to get rid of the cramps, just for a moment.

But if you let panic set in, that's tough. We've got to take responsibility for our decisions in life.

MACDONALD: No, we tried for half of the night. KILEY: We feel this bam. To their ... View production, box office, & company info.

GHINSBERG: Two of my good friends joined me. Right now let's check in New York with Anderson Cooper. Five days after the tragic ordeal began, a Russian cargo ship appeared in the distance which the surviving pair managed to flag down. DEBORAH Scaling-Kiley watched in terror as killer sharks pulled her crewmate Mark Adams beneath the surface and the sea turned red with blood. I wasn't sure at all at that time.

Only Deborah and one other person survived.

", You have 4 free articles remaining this month, Sign-up to our daily newsletter for more articles like this + access to 5 extra articles. I climbed Mt. And I want to say something about it. KING: You have gone to a Costa Rican rain forest, Arctic ice flows, Georgian swamps, the high Sonora desert. Logs were shooting down.

She joined three men and another woman who planned to sail to Florida. It was as if they were keeping a vigil.

You know, you find your own faith. She was part of a crew of people who were sailing a yacht on September 11th -- sailing a yacht from New England to its new owners in south Florida.

He took a spontaneous trek into the Amazon jungle of Bolivia with three other people. Kiley says she was also conditioned to be a survivor from her childhood. It literally sped me up. GHINSBERG: A couple of times. Because the thing about being a prisoner is you're waiting.

KILEY: I don't know. They split the group into two. I'm going to look in the water, and I'm going to see where his legs are, and I'm going to stay as far away from him as I can.

Her blood mixing with the water likely attracted sharks to the stranded party.

GHINSBERG: No, no food.

KING: But you're scared, aren't you? I made it my home and lived there for three years. She says the accident changed her. Kevin started crying. The paramedic tell me the ants were having a bit of a picnic when he turned up. And I turned around, and it was amazing. Little did I know he made up the adventure for me. Gonzales explains what makes these survivors special in "Deep Survival," a book that dissects the psychological and spiritual transformation that takes place within people who survive against all odds. In a similarly unstable state, their friend Mark Adams told the others he was heading to the store to buy beer and cigarettes. And I got to the point where I hesitate to say we were lost.

I wanted to rest, you know. I have to be alone or the show doesn't have it. It was one of the worst aviation disasters in the nation's history. He's part of the program "I Shouldn't Be Alive." MACDONALD: Well, that's not entirely true. In 1979, a writing colleague asked him to fly with him on a flight from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California.

But death -- the reason that I'm alive is miraculous, and I believe that that's the reason for all of us being alive.

GHINSBERG: We flew out of the city to as remote as an airplane can take you. KILEY: The waves sort of, in the end, were about 45 to 50 feet. He never came back. STROUD: I think everyone wants that. We wouldn't have seen him. KILEY: We're all gathered around the rubber zodiac dinghy, and I remember watching Trashman, as the last little foot of her mast slipped under the water, and it was the most devastatingly lonely feeling that I've ever felt in my life. (END VIDEO CLIP) LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight, real people who defied death and live to tell unforgettable stories of survival. Because of a number of things. Deborah Kiley and her friend, Brad Cavanaugh, spot their rescuers after five terror-filled days in the ocean.

Rotten fruits, because I couldn't get fresh fruits, because the trees were too high, anything. Scaling-Kiley recalled: "It was by far the most horrifying moment of my entire life.

And later, you'll meet a man who puts himself in dangerous situations for a week at a time, all for the sake of his television show. I think I've got time to do that, let's do it, team up, we'll do the climb and I can still get back to the south end of the island and get off on the ferry.

In the end, I established a relationship with him in which it was possible to find the goodness in him. I was shaken -- everything that I learned was taken from me.

Wait until you hear this story. The panicked crew jumped into the water and Mark inflated an 11-foot dinghy - their only chance of survival. MOON: Yes. I'm going exploring all the time. And watching those guys struggle to lift it. GHINSBERG: Absolutely. However, in the gulf stream, 76. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nothing. And I maybe absorbed that from him. But there were signs early on that the trip would not be smooth. I lived because I went with my gut. "One minute I would be standing in the shower washing my hair and the next minute sitting in the tub sobbing uncontrollably," she wrote in her book. He lost both legs. GHINSBERG: I don't know. KILEY: To the owner in Florida. KILEY: Hell, yes, you're scared.

KING: Hi, everybody. GHINSBERG: Yes, and I wanted it so badly that I literally begged him to take me with him on to this adventure.

Even the act of prayer was a survival strategy. KILEY: No food. But she says there's hardly a day where she still doesn't think about the accident. Gonzales says he was sitting in his kitchen later that day when someone called him and told him to turn on his television.

If something tells them that the mountain isn't safe to climb that day, they'll back out even if they've planned the trip for months, he says. The book he wrote is "One Step Beyond." 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF.

KING: What did you learn from all this? When Deborah, from Texas, greeted Captain John Lippoth and his girlfriend Meg Mooney in Bar Harbour, Maine, before boarding the 58-foot yacht, the weather looked promising. “I was there and Brad was there and we were alive.”. When suddenly out of the tree line charged 30 well-camouflaged soldiers. In the back of my new book, there is a survival kit. Well, one day in the streets of La Paz, I met an Austrian geologist that was just about to enter the uncharted and make contact with untouched tribe of indigenous people. KING: Ever try to escape?

To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. “You keep living in survival mode. "These are people who tend to have a view of the world that does not paint them as a victim," he says. "As long as I kept saying those words, I knew I was all right," she says today.

They were very well camouflaged.

MOON: Why do I think I'm alive? Five foot up and I heard a huge crack and then it was basically a piece of the wall broke out and landed in my lap. KING: Was it 50/50? He's author of the book "Jungle." The sharks got two. Scaling-Kiley and Cavanagh tried to save their friend, but they couldn't stop him jumping into the water. "I closed my eyes and prayed and waited to die," she wrote in "The Sinking," an account of her survival. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANNOUNCER: Mark frantically struggles to free the fiberglass canister that contains an inflatable life raft and survival equipment, while Brad tries to salvage the small rubber dinghy.

And as long as I could stay on the fine line of sanity and insanity, I really believed I could make it. KING: So where did you go? GHINSBERG: I learned one thing, Larry. We split in the middle of an uncharted. KING: You had no radio to signal anyone?