Man jumps from ferry, saves woman, loses favourite hat...

Ok, so we have lots of good stories from our tour in Turkey that I'm sure we'll continue to blog on, but one story really stands out from the rest. It has to do with Denis being a hero. Now, first off I should say that Denis would never tell this story unless he was asked about it, since it involves his heroics. So here's the story...

Our second last concert on tour was on the European side of Istanbul. After the show we were making our way back to the place where we were staying, but it involved taking a ferry from the European side to the Asian side of Istanbul. There are tonnes of these ferries and they run all day long. In any case, we took one at around 11:00pm and halfway through an older lady jumped off the boat. The ferry turned around to go find her in the big ship, jellyfish infested sea waters. We all heard her yelling for help and then as soon as Denis spotted her, he jumped fully clothed from the ferry, swam a 100 metre dash to get to her, and rescued her from drowning!



I'd be remiss if I didn't tell you that it was a little scary for a little while, but all worked out. And Denis eventually made it to the Asian side (which apparently was a little tricky as he didn't speak any Turkish). As for the lady, she was rushed off in an ambulance and that's the last that we've heard. Alls we know is that if Denis hadn't jumped in, or had've waited another 20 seconds to jump in, she would have drowned. I guess God had it all figured out. The only catch was that Denis lost his favourite hat...

Rob