Albatross: A True Story Of A Woman's Survival At Sea

Deborah Scaling Kiley and Meg Noonan


A 58-foot yacht owned by a dumpster king sets sail from Annapolis to Florida. On board were five young people. They ran into a storm near North Carolina, and the yacht went down leaving the crew adrift in the storm-tossed Atlantic in a rubber dinghy surrounded by sharks. They endured for several days without food and water but then two of the men became delirious and went overboard, and a woman died from her injuries. Only two were left alive when a Russian freighter picked them up after six days adrift. Deborah Scaling tells about her harrowing ordeal.

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