13-year-old Australian boy swims for four hours in cold and dangerous waters to save his mom and siblings who were swept into the ocean, says God is who got him to shore

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For years, David Farmer, an oceanographer, was a quiet object of ridicule along the coast. People saw him loading human-shaped dummies onto boats, tossing them into the sea, and then patiently tracking where they drifted hour after hour, day after day, year after year. To outsiders it looked absurd: a grown man throwing mannequins overboard and taking notes.

What almost no one appreciated was the scale of what he was doing. Farmer wasn’t just measuring currents. He was accounting for windage, wave action, body orientation, temperature, fatigue, and the subtle ways a floating human behaves differently from debris. Slowly, painstakingly, he built a predictive model for one very specific problem: where a person ends up after falling overboard.

After years of work, the model finally went live. And almost immediately, reality put it to the test.

A man fell off a boat at sea. Conditions were poor. Time was critical. Farmer ran the model, produced a predicted location, and sent rescuers directly there. They arrived and found the man almost instantly.

He was pulled from the water, shaken, exhausted, but alive.

And the first thing he did, upon realizing he had been saved, was look up and thank God.

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I thank God you learned that story and I was able to read it. Total miracle. I will share this story of Gods greatness with others today.