The claims

Bahia Bakari, a 12-year-old from Évry, France, who could barely swim, was the only survivor among 153 people aboard Yemenia Flight 626 when it crashed into the Indian Ocean on night approach to Moroni, Comoros, on June 30, 2009; she clung to floating wreckage for at least nine hours in heavy seas until a sailor from the ferry Sima Com 2 jumped in to reach her, and thirteen years later she testified at the Paris trial that convicted the airline of involuntary manslaughter.

Peruvian fisherman Máximo Napa Castro left the port of Marcona on December 7, 2024, for a two-week trip, lost his engine in a storm ten days out, and drifted 95 days across the Pacific on rainwater, birds, turtles, and roaches — the last 15 days with nothing to eat — before an Ecuadorian fishing vessel found him about 680 miles offshore in March 2025; he says daily prayer kept him alive, and the survival has a complete physiological account.

On October 30, 2004, lifeguard Rob Howes, his 15-year-old daughter Niccy, and fellow lifeguards Karina Cooper and Helen Slade were on a training swim about 100 meters off Ocean Beach near Whangarei, New Zealand, when seven bottlenose dolphins herded them into a tight group and circled them for about 40 minutes — and Howes saw a roughly 3-meter great white shark in the clear water. A second lifeguard patrolling in a rescue boat, Matt Fleet, independently saw both the dolphins' behavior and the shark, and the episode later became a BBC Natural World documentary.

After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2018 Sulawesi disaster, photographs of mosques standing nearly alone amid flattened neighborhoods became symbols of divine protection; engineers point to reinforced construction, open ground floors, and charity funding that skipped the corner-cutting of ordinary housing — and the same disasters offer the counterexample, including a Palu mosque named Baiturrahman where 300 worshippers died at evening prayer.

An Australian sailor and a stray dog survived roughly two to three months adrift on a storm-crippled catamaran in the open Pacific, living on raw fish and rainwater, until a Mexican tuna fleet's helicopter spotted them about 1,200 miles from land — days ahead of an approaching hurricane.

We were told we couldn't have children. Two strangers prayed over us at a coffee shop — and weeks later, an ocean away, a test in the 'Pharmacy of the Holy Spirit' said otherwise.