Couple doesn’t realize they’re driving on ice and crash into frozen lake, miraculously survive

Sometimes the snowy winter can be truly terrifying, and for one couple, they got the front seat to see how powerful snow can be in the dark.

Audrey Berndt and her husband Kevin Wiseman went out one night around 6 p.m. to groom the trails for a west Quebec snowmobile club. The two were sitting in the snowcat steering through an unfamiliar route and onto what he believed was a field. They quickly realized that they were not on a field however, and instead they were on snow-covered McMullin Lake, near Val-des-Monts, Que.

It was when they headed back that the lake’s frozen layer broke under the weight.

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Source: CBC

The couple became trapped under the ice in about four meters of water. Wiseman remained calm as he told his wife that they had a few minutes of oxygen to figure something out.

He first tried punching through the windshield, and when that didn’t work, he used his head to smash through the glass. He surfaced but realized his wife had not followed him.

Wiseman went back down twice and couldn’t find his wife. He decided to go back down once more.

“Something in my head said, ‘You are going back under. You’re staying there, if you don’t have your wife,'” he told CBC.

On the last try, he managed to find Berndt.

“I felt his hand, and he just yanked me right out of there,” she explained.

The two then managed to get to a cabin that was close by, and the woman living in it was a nurse, who clothed them and helped them get warm while they waited for paramedics. Berndt was taken to the hospital once help arrived, and it was deemed she was suffering from hypothermia. She was released after a few hours of observation.

The next day, the two were sitting at their Buckingham, Que., home, where Berndt embraced her husband of 15 years.

“I call him my hero. If not for him, I would not be here,” she says about the overall experience.

The two shared a near death experience, and the two were loyal to each other every step of the way. Berndt has truly found a partner she can count on for the rest of her life. We hope these two stay warm for the rest of the winter season, and appreciate each other for many other winters to come.

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[Source: CBC]