Dragged to the Deep

Dragged to the Deep is a raw, first-person chapter from Built by Fire: Hearing God in the Middle of the Flames by David Burnell. In the frozen depths of Fremont Lake in Wyoming, David Burnell took part in a recovery operation that would test the outer limits of human endurance and spiritual obedience. High in the mountains and fed by glacial runoff, the lake was deep, black, and unforgiving. An aircraft attempting a touch-and-go maneuver had slammed into the water, disintegrating on impact and scattering wreckage near a steep underwater drop-off that plunged into depths far beyond...