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Jan 19, 2020 · John was 14 years old when the ice broke on the lake. First responders said he was underwater for 15 minutes. Smith was rushed to the hospital and had no heartbeat for 55 minutes.
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- Why Were John Smith and His Friends on The Ice?
- Was John Smith Really Under Water For 15 minutes?
- How Deep Was The Lake Where John and His Two Friends Fell in?
- How Did The Other Two Boys Get Out of The Water?
- Had Joyce Smith Been Talking to Her Son Seconds Before He Went Through The Ice?
- Did A Prayer Chain Really Go Viral as John Lay Unresponsive in The Hospital?
- Did The Doctors Believe That John Wouldn't Survive The First Night?
- How Long Was It Before John Smith Was Taken Off The Ventilator After Drowning?
- What Became of John Smith and His Family After His Recovery?
- Does John Smith Regret What Happened?
"You don't expect to be in that situation," John Smith said. "We all thought that we were just going to have fun, to celebrate. It's a holiday. We'd just won a basketball game, so we were just going to have a good time, but we weren't expecting that [with] one wrong move, we would be all one second away from dying." The photo shown below of then 14...
Yes. Our Breakthroughfact check confirms that John Smith was under water for approximately 15 minutes before rescuers, including Tommy Shine, found him on the rocky bottom of the lake and pulled him to the surface. John was in the frigid water for a total of more than 20 minutes.
The lake was about 10 feet deep where John and his two friends went through the ice. After John succumbed to the frigid lake and drowned, his lifeless body was discovered on the rocky bottom.
John's friend Joshua Sander managed to pull himself out. The other boy, Joshua Rieger, was trying to get out by pushing onto the ice and pulling himself, but the ice kept breaking. He was eventually pulled out when rescue personnel arrived.
Yes. In the film, they are just texting, but in real life, they talked on the phone after first texting. "I'd talked to him moments before he went into the water," Joyce Smith said. "In fact, he basically hung up the phone from me and the ice cracked under [him], he went under. So that was around 11:30 a.m. They called me at 11:52 a.m. to tell me."...
Yes. Friends gathered at the hospital to pray for John. His story went viral as prayer chains spread through Facebook. "Facebook was just blowing up," says his mother, Joyce. "My phone was coming off the wall – people praying, people sending me scriptures that they were praying for John." -CBN
Yes. Doctor Garrett (Dennis Haysbert) tells the family this in the movie and it lines up with the Breakthrough true story. "Doctors told us that John wasn't going to live through the night," says Joyce Smith. Though his heartbeat had returned, John only had brainstem function and his blood oxygen levels were critical. Like in the movie, Joyce would...
His condition continued to improve, and on the tenth day, he was removed from the ventilator and was able to breath on his own. He was talking about three hours after that. "I'm thinking to myself, 'They're wrong. They're wrong. He has more than brainstem function, because he is looking around the room and he knows who people are. You know, God is ...
Joyce wrote a book about her son John Smith's drowning and resurrection, titled The Impossible, which became the basis for the Breakthroughmovie. As for John, he hopes to one day become a pastor.
"I see three 14-year-old boys who were being dumb on the ice and that fell through, and that the Lord saved us," says John. "And really he used it in his way to save other people, not just the three of us." -USA Today Dive deeper into the true story behind Breakthroughby watching an interview with mother and son Joyce and John Smith. Then check out...
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Apr 18, 2019 · John Smith (center) talks with some of the first responders on Wednesday, March 20, 2019, who were responsible for saving his life four years ago when he fell through the ice on Lake Sainte...
Feb 24, 2020 · When John Smith fell through the ice five years ago on a frozen lake, his mind was telling him to fight. Smith said every human has a fight or flight instinct because that is what God...
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Apr 4, 2019 · Four years ago, on January 15, 2015, then 14-year-old John Smith fell through the ice of Lake St. Louis while playing with his friends. For 15 minutes, he was underwater.
Apr 17, 2019 · The morning of January 19, 2015 began for Joyce Smith like any other. Her 14-year-old son John, adopted by Joyce and her husband Brian from Guatemala when he was just an infant, had spent the...
