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Recently 30-year-old Arne Murke and his brother were sailing a 40-foot yacht from Aukland, New Zealand to Brazil when they experienced a motor failure and lost all power.\xa0 Suddenly the boat turned to cause the boom to swing around knocking Arne overboard into the ocean.\xa0His brother tried to throw him a line and a life jacket, but the swell had put too much distance Arne and the boat.

Without a motor or life vest in the rough seas, a rescue was looking impossible.\xa0 But Arne remembered a survival tactic he had seen the Navy Seals employ.\xa0He took off his jeans and tied knots in the ends of the legs and then inflated the jeans by opening the waist and pulling the legs under water.\xa0 \xa0Talk about a thaumaturgist, or miracle worker.\xa0Luckily, the brothers were rescued after being adrift for over three hours.\xa0 What\u2019s a word for the fear of becoming physically exhausted?\xa0 Kopophobia!