Annie Elise
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But of course, everybody wanted to know what had happened.
How had this normal fishing trip ended in so much chaos and devastation?
Well, here's what happened according to Nathan.
Their usual boating routine was to go to Block Island, which was where Linda had told her friend they were going to be.
And even though it's still pretty far out there from the marina, it's not all that far when you have a decent fishing boat.
But instead, Nathan claimed that they decided to go deep sea fishing at a place called Block Canyon.
And just to give you an idea of how far they went, the water at Block Island is about 200 feet deep.
But the water at Block Canyon can be anywhere from 1,000 feet deep to even deeper.
And Nathan said that it took them most of the night to even get to Block Canyon.
And from there, he says it all happened very, very fast.
One minute, everything was fine.
Their fishing lines were in the water.
They were just enjoying being able to spend some quality time together.
But then the next minute, water randomly started rushing onto the boat way quicker than they could even react.
They hadn't hit anything and they hadn't noticed anything with the boat seemed off before that point.
So according to him, it was all just completely unexpected.
Nathan said that he yelled to his mom Linda to start pulling in the fishing lines while he ran to the pilot house of the boat, which that's the area of the boat where you have all the controls and all the equipment.
And he said that he went in there so that he could grab some emergency gear.
But what happened next is pretty vague.
Nathan said that he went from grabbing the gear to being in the water, all while Linda was nowhere to be seen, presumably also already in the water.