After a day of battering by huge waves, the 36-foot gillnetter Andromeda sank silently into the Bering Sea two miles from land. Bo Oglesbee and Mitch Trujillo, the two-man crew, floated in the frigid, eerily quiet water and thought they were going to die.
“It seemed hopeless at the time. No one knew we were out there. The land was so far off in the distance we could barely see it on the horizon,” said Trujillo, 19.
