A tanker steaming through the deep Northwest Providence Channel from the Bahamas results in a shocking sight: a lone dinghy carrying Captain Julian Harvey and your body of a young girl. They are all that remain of the ketch Bluebelle, a good-looking sixty-foot sailing yacht chartered from the Duperrault category of Green Bay, Wisconsin. But their happy family vacation proceeded to go terribly incorrect when, regarding to Harvey, a violent and unexpected squall smashed the large main mast, killed Harvey’s wife as well as the about By itself: Orphaned over the Sea others, and sank the motorboat. Harvey found the child floating inactive and, as far as he knows, he’s the just survivor. Or is usually he?

Four days later, just as Captain Harvey is testifying at a Coast Safeguard hearing about the tragic accident, amazing news of another survivor arrives. Eleven-year-old Terry Jo Duperrault has been found barely alive on the flimsy cork-and-canvas float with no food or water. Harvey takes the news headlines calmly, coatings his testimony, and leaves…to commit bloody suicide.

This is the chillingly detailed inside story of what really occurred throughout that trip as well as the decades-long courage of the only real survivor of a murderous crime.