When This Boat Crew Realized What They Were Seeing, It Was Almost Too Late To Escape Alive

We might not realize it in front of our eyes, but the Earth is still changing all the time! It just happens so slowly that we can’t really perceive it. Every now and then, things speed up… a lot, and this real life story will prove it!

The crew of the Maiken was enjoying a leisure sail through the South Pacific when they noticed something strange in the water. They moved in closer to see what it was, but by the time they realized what it was, it was almost too late to escape alive…

The crew of the Maiken was sailing the South Pacific when they spotted an unusual shadow.

Fredrik writes: “After five miles we noticed brown, somewhat grainy streaks in the water. First we thought that it might be an old oil dumping. Some ship cleaning its tanks.”

“…but the streak became larger and more frequent after a while, and there were rocklike brownish things the size of a fist floating in the sea.”

They were curious and they decided to get a closer look… they redirected their yacht towards it.

They couldn’t believe their eyes… it looked like a beach in the middle of the sea!

They made a decision to sail through the “odd beach”, leaving a trail in the stones behind…

They wondered what could have caused this expanse of stone to appear out of nowhere.

The field of pumice was getting larger all the time. The crew had a bad feeling about it and increased their speed to sail through it…

Once they were at a safe distance, they heard something rumbling. They looked back and saw water bubbling from the Sea…

Believe it or not, the source of the pumice stone was a middle-of-the-sea volcano that was erupting all the time!!

They were curious to watch the entire event, so they got their cameras ready and captured this photo of a massive smoke coming from the volcano.

As the smoke cleared, they noticed something coming out of the Sea…

It was land! 

The crew didn’t believe their eyes: It was a birth of a new island!

They sailed a bit closer… they were curious to know if their eyes were playing tricks on them.

But it was all too real! The land was already taking form. The peaks were beginning to show.

This happens once in a lifetime!!

They were way too lucky! Not only because this event was once in a lifetime opportunity… but they barely escaped alive!

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Story taken from Boredom Therapy and confirmed by Snopes

Images were taken from yacht-maiken.blogspot