20 Survival Stories That Put Human Endurance in Another Light

Navigation becomes a very different skill when the mast is gone, the radio is silent, and the person who shared the voyage is no longer there. Tami Oldham Ashcraft and her fiancé, Richard Sharp, left Tahiti in September 1983 to deliver a yacht to San Diego. Hurricane Raymond caught them at sea weeks later. Sharp sent her below deck as the conditions worsened, and the force of the storm knocked her unconscious. When she awoke roughly a day later, the yacht was badly damaged, and Sharp had disappeared overboard.