No “life threatening conditions”? Elsewhere, I read that one of those rescued - a young woman - had died. Is that incorrect?
Yes. Read below.
Life threatening has what meaning...when hypothermia is possible.
A woman rescued in the Atlantic from a tall ship caught in Hurricane Sandy has died, the Coast Guard reports.
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — The Coast Guard says a woman who was rescued in the Atlantic after abandoning ship in rough weather churned up by Hurricane Sandy has died.
Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class David Weydert says 42-year-old Claudene Christian was unresponsive when she was pulled from the water Monday evening and was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
Fourteen other crew members were rescued from the HMS Bounty, a replica 18th-century sailing vessel that was originally built for the 1962 film "Mutiny on the Bounty" and was featured in several other films over the years.
The Coast Guard is still searching for the ship's captain.
The final hours of the HMS Bounty were as dramatic as the Hollywood adventure films she starred in, with the crew abandoning ship in life rafts as their stately craft slowly went down in the immense waves churned up by Hurricane Sandy off the North Carolina coast.
By the time the first rescue helicopter arrived, all that was visible of the replica 18th-century sailing vessel was a strobe light atop the mighty ship's submerged masts. The roiling Atlantic Ocean had claimed the rest.
This is a report that I received today. Two former students from the college I teach at were on the Bounty.
Both survived.
The liferaft was launched-to avoid punctures from the sharp objects on the hull, it was put in the water and the crew jumped into the water and then quickly got into the raft.
The captain was the last to leave and helped the final crew member get into the raft-this final crew member did not survive. The captain did not make it to the raft. One of my colleagues was a good friend of the captain’s. May the souls of the captain and crew member who perished rest in peace.
Maine Mariner