He grabbed hold of a platform leg, getting cut up by barnacles until he caught a swell of water and was able to reach a ladder. Thompson finally reached Platform Gail, greeted by a swarm of seagulls. I even asked him for a lift at one point.” “At some point a little seal showed up and started bobbing around checking me out, and I was so happy to see another living creature I just started to talk to it. He headed for what he thought was Platform Gina, trying to encourage himself and to push away negative thoughts as he kicked and pulled through 57-degree water. “I thought of my wife and kids immediately and just thought, ‘Okay, you’ve got this … figure it out.’” “Really? Really? This is how it all ends?” Thompson wrote. A very good friend had died of a heart attack recently at the age of 38, leaving his wife and two little girls about the same ages as Thompson’s own. In the comment stream of an Instagram post by TowBoatsUS, a salvage service out of Ventura Harbor, Thompson related that he’d gone out in a terrible mood.
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