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July 8, 2011
Shipwreck in the Sea of Cortez
A fishing boat went down in a bad storm in the Sea of Cortez last Sunday. Most of the people were from the bay area. 8 people were lost...one was later found deceased...7 are still missing. Here's the story of one of the survivors that lives in Novato, in Sonoma County just north of Petaluma.
"Zuger said he had a bad feeling about the weather when he slunk to his bunk at 11 p.m. after a night of partying on the back deck. It was their first day at sea and the fishing was to begin in the morning, but 6-foot swells were already slapping the 115-foot boat. The wind was blowing at 30 knots.
"I figured the captain could handle it," he said. "And then at 2:30 a.m. Jim Miller (of Sonoma County) ran in and yelled, 'Let's get out now! We're sinking!' "
Zuger, dressed only in swimming trunks, dashed to the deck. To his horror, he found that the boat was not pointed into the by-now 50-knot winds, as nautical sense would dictate, but sideways.
"That was it, I knew we were going down," he said. He leaped in - and in one minute, the boat was beneath the waves."
Posted by Rob Kiser on July 8, 2011 at 9:26 PM
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