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for her to be there. “I’m usually down below in the salon reading,” she said. “But this particular morning I was sitting back on the console surveying the scenery. I just happened to be looking off to port and something caught my eye. I said to no one in particular, ‘If I saw what I think I just saw, I saw a man in the water.’ Maybe it wasn’t, but I know I saw something.” Krueger immediately swung the boat into a turn that would take them back in the direction of the sighting. Petitpren, as she had been trained to do during their routine man-overboard drills, locked her eyes on the spot and kept them there as the boat made its swing. Meanwhile, her husband readied a flotation ring with a line attached. Now they had a waving arm with a sock in sight. The arm was attached to a man’s body wearing a black shirt and boxer shorts. Their first thought was that he was in a wet suit and was probably a jet-skier who had fallen off his ride. Krueger was able to idle the Viking to within 10 feet of the man, who was now holding onto one of two life rings they had thrown to him. With the boat securely in neutral, the crew pulled the life ring and the pilot next to the swim platform. Trapp was too weak to climb out of the water, so Dean and Krueger grabbed him under both arms and hauled him aboard—first onto the swim platform, then through the door in the transom, and finally onto the deck where he lay motionless, staring up at the sky like a large landed fish. Saviors Diane Petitpren and Marita Grobbel grabbed all the beach towels they could find and wrapped them around the stricken pilot. They applied their own warmth as well, rubbing his arms, hands, and shoulders, telling him he was going to be all right. Having read somewhere that potassium was good for hypothermia, Dennis Andrus produced a fresh banana from the galley, which Trapp was able to eat. A second was offered, and he downed that as well. Then he began to shake uncontrollably and the muscles in his body went rigid. Moments earlier, as he lay on the swim platform, Dean had asked him if he wanted water, to which he had quipped, “No thanks, I’ve had enough.” In the meantime, Grobbel asked Trapp for his home phone number. She called Trapp’s wife, Julie, and told her
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