In 1982 the author and four companions got caught in a storm in a 58 foot yacht off the coast of North Carolina. For five days they kept alive without food or water in a tiny inflatable dinghy after the yacht sank. The first night was spent in the water under the upside down dinghy trying to keep warm, not learning until morning that the area was infested with sharks. Two of the boys drank sea water, went mad, climbed overboard and were never seen again. Meg, badly injured, died of exposure and gangrene. Brad and Debbie were rescued by a Russian freighter. Debbie couldn't talk about the incident for years, being severly traumatised. Now she can and has written, with Meg Noonan, her story.
- ISBN10 0395655730
- ISBN13 9780395655733
- Publish Date 31 December 1994 (first published 1 May 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English