The Chi-Mac Challenge: "A Whistle in the Wind"
Mark Wheeler went overboard a few minutes before midnight. He was in the middle of Lake Michigan, 30 miles offshore in 40 knots of wind. As he fumbled for the lanyard to inflate his lifejacket he watched his racing sailboat, Meridian X, disappear into the night at more than 18 knots… He was 30 miles offshore, immersed in 60-degree water. The night was like pitch, moonless and storming. And his lifejacket wasn’t properly buckled… Minutes after he went overboard, his brand new light flickered and went out… The odds seemed impossibly long… Then someone said he thought he heard a whistle.
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