Hope returned when Anderson's feet hit the cold water of the river. When he hid his head behind the Toyota Hilux, he was completely hopeless. He was desperate because of the heavy gunfire surrounding him, his somewhat subjective thinking, and the reasoning that had almost cost him his own life. The return of hope awakened the instincts of an Inupiat Eskimo in him. Those instincts made him act. If someone had just looked at his instinctive actions, they would have thought he was a brave young man.
Anderson immediately took a deep breath before his whole body completely sank into the cold river. When he felt his foot touch the bottom of the river, his legs kicked hard against the bedrock to push his body to the surface quickly. As soon as he emerged, he exhaled the CO2 that had built up in
