WDCash Loc: Milford, Delaware, USA

In 2006 I was trapped in a trenching accident in Pine Hill NJ. I'm in the process of writing a book about Gods protection. The story on the trench accident is included in the story. I have been going through old files looking for pictures that might help tell the story. This is the only one i can find, right now, of me in the trench.
I have heard that using some Photoshop magic, that i have not yet learned, that a picture can be enlarged without loosing much detail. I would greatly appreciate it if one or many of you would give me a hand and bump the size of this up some. The first picture from the news station is the one I would like to enlarge. How much larger is a matter of how much it can be blown up.
Just for fun I'm attaching a few other pictures of the rescue team an me leaving on the ambulance stretcher. btw, As I'm doing thisI just noticed. My rescue teams were there for the long haul. If you look at the last picture, just to the left of the red trailer, you can see they had set up tents for the rescue teams. No wonder some seemed disappointed when I climbed out.
Thanks
Bill

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Resqu2 Loc: SW Va

Can’t help with the pic but wanted to say that your one of the lucky ones. A trench rescue is usually a recovery. Thanks for sharing the pics.

riada22 Loc: Edinburgh - Scotland

577323-082505_nw_trench_2 by Jim, on Flickr

riada22 Loc: Edinburgh - Scotland

Best I can do Bill.

OddJobber Loc: Portland, OR

Link doesn't work.

riada22 Loc: Edinburgh - Scotland

I'll try again.

577323-082505_nw_trench_2 by Jim, on Flickr

WDCash Loc: Milford, Delaware, USA

thanks Jim
Just about like I got. Oh well maybe ABC News still has it on file.

WDCash Loc: Milford, Delaware, USA

Resqu2.

Yup. I knew that when the ground gave way. OSHA says that well. I need to revisit the OSHA statistics but its close to a 100% chance, if the hole is over 6' deep and the victim goes home. This hole was close to 30' deep.

Most of the rescue workers in the pictures thought they were there to recover a victim's body as well.

The New News anchor that told the story that night called me "the luckiest man alive". His backup anchor suggested I buy a lottery ticket.

Thanks for your comment
Bill

RGreenway Loc: Morristown, New Jersey

That looks like a video frame grab, so in 2006 it may not have been HD even, so the resolution would be limited to perhaps 640x480. riada22's enlargement is likely the best you can get even if the station has the original video.

Best of all is that you got out alive!!

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Bill, it looks like the one you'd like enlarged is a screen shot of a TV. That isn't going to enlarge very well. I'm glad you made it out of that situation OK.
--Bob

WDCash Loc: Milford, Delaware, USA

Thanks.
Your probably correct. I seem to recall borrowing that from ABC's web site sometime after.

WDCash Loc: Milford, Delaware, USA

Hi Bob.
I was pretty happy to be out. Retelling the story now in written form is bringing back a flood of memories that were, so I thought, forgotten.

What I had started out to write was focused around a second fatal accident that occurred 4 years after the trench. As I was developing the story for the 8/9/10 accident the fall on 8/25/06 kept coming up. I became necessary to give an a count of the trench too

Thanks
Bill

SoHillGuy Loc: Washington

You might need a waiver to use ABC picture.

WDCash Loc: Milford, Delaware, USA

Thanks. I came to the same conclusion and decided that if I need to contact them for a waiver I might as well ask them for any other images they might have.
Bill

LensWork

At the risk of being flamed, I feel the need to point out that although the image is of you, ABC owns the copyright and you cannot use it, or any of the other images included in your post, for commercial purposes, i.e. publishing it in your book, without getting a copyright release from ABC (or the photographer of the other images). Any publisher that you work with (unless you self-publish) will surely refuse to publish the image without the copyright release. Using the image without a copyright release is a violation of federal law and you could be subject to fines and punitive damages.