Steve Torpey

Well, we started the second hoist and we're all kind of on a high.

We got it down.

That second hoist probably took about 10 or 12 minutes or so.

And then that's when it got a little bit different.

The sea state got a little bit worse.

Fred was having a hard time seeing the survivors.

The sea spray, the wind was blowing so hard that he couldn't, we're at a hundred feet.

He couldn't see the survivors well enough to distinguish them.

Mm-hmm.

And the basket is near them.

And he said, basically, hold, hold.

And I'm holding there.

And bear in mind, I still can't see the survivors.

I'm just holding based on the ocean.

And then he said, I think someone's in the basket.

And it was a, I don't know, maybe a minute.

And they started pulling the basket up.

And there was an awkward silence.

And I remember just like waiting for the next piece of information that Fred to give me to tell me things are all right.

And as the basket came up, bear in mind, the wind's blowing so hard, the basket's not coming straight up.