Steve Torpey

I didn't have time to think about that, but I...

I remember looking down and trying to be as objective as I could and seeing him.

And then we began concentrating on the next order of business, which was to get the third person.

Well, I remember first off hearing Captain's Fever said, if we recover in Yakutat, we can spend another 45 minutes on scene.

And I remember thinking, ugh, I don't really want to do that.

I'm starting to get really tired.

My concentration is starting to ebb a little bit.

But it gave me a little bit more of a sense that we can continue trying to get the third person.

So we had a choice.

Do we try to spend time in recovering the person that had just fallen?

Or do we try to get the other person?

And the logical choice was to get the person that's still part of the survivor pack.

We elected to do that.

And we started that third hoist.

And ultimately, we got the third person aboard.

Mike Fish had also volunteered multiple times to go deploy into the water.

did try to recover him using the basket.

We actually got very, very close to putting the basket right on top of him, but there was no movement.

There was no effort from him to get into the basket.

And after five or 10 or 15 minutes of trying to do that, Captain Lefevre, rightfully so, looked at the crew and said, it's time for us to go home.