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Among those escaping were Robert McSeveney, 29, of Los Angeles, and Claude Brideau, 33, of British Columbia, who had arrived in Aden the night before the trouble started. They were crew members of the 44-ft. yacht Wathara IV, whose Australian owner, Bruce Cameron, 65, had stopped to take on water and food after 15 days at sea. On shore, they watched as artillery began to fire from the hills, MiGs appeared in the sky and shells suddenly were landing everywhere. "The concussions sucked the air from our lungs," McSeveney said later. "We thought we were going to die." After...
...first, the two had celebrated their return to the yacht with a bottle of Russian vodka and a case of Anchor Steam beer, but by the third night they knew they had to escape. "Outside, it was a scene from Apocalypse Now," recalled McSeveney. During a lull in the firing, they started the engine and slowly found their way to open sea through the darkness, past a capsized freighter and a patrol boat loaded with armed men. When they finally sighted Djibouti 30 hours later, they both cried, "Thank you, Lord!" at the top of their voices...
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