Word: crew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battery died, leaving the crew stranded 45 miles south of Martha's Vineyard, with a dead engine and no radio, lights or bilge pump late in the afternoon. The crew was not worried, even as attempts to revive the engine failed...
...With the crew not immediately realizing the difficulty, it seemed that the unfortunate delay even gave them a fish story to go along with the day. Ogletree tried to reel in a blue shark that probably weighed 350 pounds, but ultimately it got away, giving the crew their fish story for the day. However, rougher seas lay ahead...
Then a chance occurrence seemed to save the day for the crew as the Dorado, a lobster boat returning to port after three days, was spotted. It was 8:30 and darkness had fallen; Vanderhoop fired off powerful 2500 ft. rocket flares that he fortunately had in the cabin...
Fortunately, the crew still had three bottles of Red Stripe left, which they happily handed over...
Ogletree and the rest of the crew did their best manually bailing out of the boat an estimated 2,000 gallons of water, with Ogletree filling more than 100 buckets. Yet, the Coast Guard, which had initially said it would only take 45 minutes to arrive, took nearly three hours, arriving in a 47-foot boat instead of a 110-footer, which better suited...