The dark slowly faded into bright, white, blinding light. Biting cold salt water splashed into my eyes and mouth. The white light slowly faded
and faded until I could see that I was floating, with the help of an oar, in the ocean. I saw a small island in the distance. It looked quite a few
miles away, passed fog and high ocean waves, but I went with my gut instead of my head, which as I would soon find out would take me on the
craziest adventure of my life, and started swimming. The waves pushed me with such a force I was knocked 10 feet under sea level. Sting rays
and jellyfish brushed against my skin so many times that, to a point, I d