William Holbert (Wild Bill)

What we're doing, there's no doctor on the open ocean.

And by the time that she got to, you know, 10 hours, 12 hours later, she would have bled out.

And I'm not relieving guilt of the Jamaicans because I remember feeling so, I mean, or my own either.

Even today when I tell this story, I feel so guilty about it.

You know, I feel terrible about it, but

But it's something that happened, and it sticks in my mind, and I think to myself, you know, even after she broke her leg, if I had just, like, took her back on the boat and took her back with me, she probably would have had her leg amputated, but she probably lived.

But even then, what would I have done?

But in Panama, I could have probably got that done without the police being called, you know?

And I certainly didn't expect, you know, Jamaicans to shoot her and throw her overboard, but I didn't.

I didn't take any responsibility for that action and let the Jamaicans handle it.

And that's how the Jamaicans handled it.

They just shot her and threw her into the water for sharks.

As I mentioned earlier, they give you a security.

The organization gives us a security because, you know, 80 people are too much for a captain to manage by himself.

And so I got a deckhand who's also dealt with security.

But they gave me this humongous man, American man, who was a fugitive from the United States.

And I won't say his name.

and he was just terrible to deal with i mean he was about i was a big guy i still am a big guy i was i am about six foot one and i in that time period i weighed about 275 pounds i was kind of about 30 or 40 pounds overweight but i boxed a lot and i lifted weights a lot and i was you know fairly athletic and the other man was about six foot six and probably 350 pounds and he was kind of just a blob you know

but he was a huge man and he would do terrible things like he would like i said he would touch the girls he would fight with the passengers he was like the opposite of keeping order he was like creating problems all the time and so we've been on a particularly different difficult trip and when i got back he was we were floating in the harbor waiting on the bus man to come and pay us and take charge of the boat and i was floating in in the harbor on boca del toro on the on the east harbor and

And it's like three o'clock in the morning and the guy's like drinking beer and doing cocaine.