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On that Greek ship that sunk last week, were a group of Alberta high school students from a small town east of Edmonton. One student, Kristen Strilchuk recounts her experience. She goes on to describe how she fought other passengers to steal their life jackets, her reasoning for these actions were because she was young( 16 years old ).
I’m not sure how other people think of this, but if she was my child, I would be pretty embarrassed right about now.

She still likes cruises.
Teen recounts harrowing hours as ship ran aground.

By AJAY BHARDWAJ, SUN MEDIA

Kristen Strilchuk vows she'll go on another cruise this summer even as she relived a harrowing four-hour rescue from a Greek vessel that sank off the coast of a Mediterranean island last week.
"It's a one-time thing," said the 16-year-old. "I enjoy travelling and I'm not going to let one thing stop me from doing what I love."
The Grade 10 Tofield high school student was one of 21 Alberta students, five chaperones and 1,900 others rescued from the sinking Sea Diamond.
"A door came flying off and it was coming for me," recalled Strilchuk.
Toilet paper and other debris went rolling by as she climbed the stairs to the upper deck moments after she and her friends heard a loud sound like the boat had scraped the ocean floor. When they reached an upper floor, Strilchuk said she found patrons calmly eating a meal.
"Nobody believed us," she said.
A few decks away, David Friedenberg and two friends were in their cabin when the ship began "tilting worse than it usually did," he said.
A crew member raced through the corridor and ordered everyone to grab a life jacket.
Friedenberg, a Grade 11 student at Tofield high, grabbed his life jacket and raced with friends to the eighth deck, he said. He left everything else behind.
"It was scary at that point," he said. Once on the top deck, crew members were screaming, cellphones were ringing and nobody seemed to know what was going on, said Strilchuk.
"It was really unorganized," she said.
Strilchuk and her friends had no lifejackets and saw a man clutching a lifejacket. She pleaded with him to hand it over.
"He was holding it and he was 40 years old and we were kids," she said, describing how she made a fist and walloped him in the face and took the lifejacket for a friend.
Moments later the feisty teen smoked another man and took his lifejacket for herself.
Strilchuk said she was thinking of her family, how much see missed them and how badly she wanted to see them. An announcement told passengers to go to one side of the ship to balance the weight of the listing boat.
There, Strilchuk and her friends found Friedenberg and other friends, she said.
In broken English, a crew member tried to explain to passengers that when they jumped from the ship, they were to keep their legs together and hold their lifejackets down, said Friedenberg.
Finally the group was walked through the restaurant where broken plates and glasses lay all around. They had to hold on to railings because the ship was tilting so badly, said Strilchuk.
The students then got into lifeboats. Once they reached shore, they called family to let them know they were all right.
The students arrived at Edmonton International Airport yesterday morning.
Undaunted by her Greek cruise experience, Strilchuk says she'll go on a July cruise for her grandparents' 50th anniversary.
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smoked another man.

Well,she's from Tofield,the town with no known solved murders because everyone has the same DNA.

   

I take it by this, you’ve had at least one bad night there Ziggy ?

   

Wow. That is disgusting. I can understand being desperate, but Christ!

"I was thinking about my family and how much I missed them"?! What about the two guys you smoked? What about their families?! Inconsiderate bitch!

I'd grab a fucking piece of wood, jump, and hold on until help arrived. If you're young(16), chances are you can swim fairly well.

   

My mum's family is from there.

   

"I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch the children run around and scream. They don't know I use blanks."

   

congrats to here.. she did what she could to make certain her shallow depth of her limited gene pool continued. Women and children first I suppose.. so she felt well hell I'm both..So give me my damn jacket....

Its a freaking ship sinking of course it's unorganized.. crew has trained for this but unfortunately the passengers haven't and didn't think it was all that important to listen to the "Safety Lecture".



good to see....


wonder if it happens again if she''l punch out her grandma and grandpa for her vest....

   

Sorry, posted in the wrong thread...

   

Sorry to hear that.

   

That explains a lot,

   

This is disgusting. What a bitch.

Grab an object that floats in water well, and go. Fucking piece of shit.

   

Mom and Dad must be proud of their little girl. She definitely needs to have some decency slapped into her soonest.

By the way, I seem to have heard that the boat actually took the better part of a day to actually sink so nobody was actually in any real danger. It looked like the entire Greek navy waas on hand "rescuing" the passengers.

   

Wow. I'm sure this type of thing isn't new, just that in the past people kinda never told the truth and certainly didn't try to make it sound like a Noble thing.

Hopefully they come to see their error.

   

A real low life piece of shit. If she was so young she could have swam for longer. Just a coward. The part the bothers me is that if she had been a man who punched a women in the face people would be screaming for his head.

   

Bet that is just another article that her parents will proudly paste into her scrapbook...Alongside 17 year old graduates while raising 6 kids!

The no-mind would have probably floated anyway...

What an air-head

   

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