Piers Morgan

Will was able to retrieve a few life jackets and a throw cushion.

So why didn't that save people?

It had nothing to do with the drowning.

It was the hypothermia.

When hypothermia sets in, it does things to the mind and the body that anyone can control.

Things that happened out there to the guys that they didn't realize that was even happening.

When you say not realize, they were disoriented?

Correct, yes.

And you weren't?

Not till later.

Not till later when I was by myself.

What was it like to see three of your friends go under?

It was probably the worst thing I could ever imagine for anyone else.

It's really indescribable, and words don't do justice, but particularly how those guys went.

To sit there absolutely helpless and defenseless and not being able to help them or get help or whatever, it was definitely heart-wrenching.

And looking into their eyes once again, them not even knowing what's going on was definitely difficult.

I would say it's not as bad as many Americans think it is.

And it's not as good as many people here, when they launch impassioned defenses of our country and our culture and the way things have gone, would like to pretend it is.

It's kind of somewhere in the middle.

There's definitely been...