In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.

Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.

The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.

On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.

Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.

I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.

In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.