Recently, though, Dave told me: “You probably had no idea how much in my own head I was. “We had gotten absolutely pummeled,” John Roberts, a petty officer on the Mustang, told me recently. And yet, a boat — a Coast Guard boat, no less — happened to be passing through that exceedingly small window at precisely the right time. The coast guard rescue operation was documented by a National Geographic crew who happened to be in Alaska. So Ogilvy put on his, climbed down the ladder and told Dave to get on his back.

Source: New York Times March 21, 2019 00:38 UTC