The thing that struck Mitchell Trujillo was the eerie silence.

“The last thing I remember of the boat was looking back and watching the stern slowly sinking in ... it made no noise, it was so quiet, that was the weird thing, because we are so used to hearing the diesel.

“All we heard was the waves and the wind,” he said.

“We were like ‘The Coast Guard is never going to come get us, no one knows we are in the water, we’re screwed,’” Trujillo said.
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