Michael J. Tougias

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206 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2 Jul

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You have three men in the water.

And so I'm attracted for two parts.

One, I say to myself, I could have never made it.

So that clears the first hurdle for me.

And then two, does it have enough twists, turns, surprises, and those really tough decisions that they've got to get right?

If you get it wrong, you can't get an A minus.

In other words, you have to get an A plus with all the decisions.

So for those reasons, it appeals to me like, okay, so how did they do it?

Not so much physically, but mentally.

How did they not give up when I'm saying to myself as I'm interviewing the folks involved, I would have thrown in the towel?

Yes.

You know, they never got off on May Day because things can happen fast out there.

And a couple of mistakes were made early on, like you should always tell people where you're going.

And, you know, when the waves are building, head in at the first sign of it.

But I've made those mistakes, too, where I've gone out and forgot to tell somebody when I'm coming back or where I'm going on the ocean.

But that decision-making and that resilience, I think it's probably there in all of us to a greater degree than we think.

But I don't think I could have done 28 hours in the ocean.

And a couple of times when one of them in particular was going to give up, he would think of his family.

So he had a bigger purpose than just living for himself.

So they're 10 miles out and the boat sinks.

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