Brian Stern
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There was a land component.
She was in a house.
She was in hiding.
She had to get moved from there to a BLS, a pickup spot for a boat.
And a boat took her from Venezuela right off the coast to a bigger boat.
That's the boat that I was on in very rough seas, five to 10 foot waves, which is very, very rough seas, especially for these kinds of small boats in pitch black darkness, rendezvoused at sea.
And we transferred Maria from one boat to the next and then drove her very far.
If our boat sunk, we were much closer to Venezuela than any other country from perspective.
We were right off the coast.
The journey was not fun.
It was cold.
It was very wet.
We were all soaked.
These things are complex.
It's not Uber.
It's not, I will go to the beach and get on the boat and then it will meet me and then it will go and it will be okay.
It's not that at all.
These things are very dangerous.
They're very scary.