Deborah Scaling Kiley still can't break free from that night. Deborah Kiley can smile now, but she says she still has nightmares from her ordeal at sea.

In a catastrophic event, most people fail to do the one thing that would save their life, says Michael Bond.

Stories of survival after being trapped by Haiti's devastating earthquake have been few and far between. But people have been buried in the rubble and still managed to survive a natural disaster that has killed many thousands of people. Some of their stories are below.