Attempted Suicide

ATTEMPTED  SUICIDE

It was only 10 minutes since the ferry set on its journey to the Princes Islands in Istanbul, when a figure was seen jumping into the waters. The captain was alerted. He immediately made a 180 degree turn and everyone on deck peered into the choppy, dark and cold waters expecting to spot her. The woman now reportedly seen being in tears while on the cell phone, then hanging  up, refusing to answer the insisting rings and jumping into the water was finally spotted. She was floating on her back, pale, motionless and looked dead.  If it was not for the passengers’ multiple watchful eyeballs and the one jumping into the threatening waters to bring her on board, the woman who probably passed out from the cold would have never survived another minute or two.

The moment when she was spotted on the sea I decided to position myself on the bow, to my disappointment, the ferry maneuvered to haul her from the rear. I waited for another moment and when the ferry turned I got this frame, before I joined the crowd in the rear and managed to get a few more shots.

Morris Alkalay