‘From the depths of my soul, I feel an animal roar inside me. Then all these little things started being put in place. She should feel joy and pride before finally concluding: ‘I will always be with you’. Moments later she heard him scream ‘Oh my God!’ and her world was thrust into darkness. (Dey Street recently reissued the book under the title Adrift). But for all the drama, it is the love story woven into the tragic tale that has captured hearts. Furniture, debris and cans of food floated all around her. Yet the reality for this gilded couple, Tami Oldham Ashcraft and her British fiance, Richard Sharp, could barely have proved more catastrophic – as the course they set put them directly into the path of Hurricane Raymond and one of the most destructive storms in recorded history. She spent the next 41 days alone, haunted by the loss of her love. As her incredible story is told in a film released this month Tami, now 58, shows the triangular diamond pendant she wears constantly round her neck. We hugged, laughed, made love and relaxed into 20 days of paradise.’, The couple set off on the 4,000 mile trip on board the Hazana across the Pacific Ocean.
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A serious head injury and blood loss meant that she drifted in and out of consciousness. It was Richard who spotted a monster wave approaching the Hazana and ordered Tami below deck while he secured himself with a safety harness and tried to keep the vessel afloat.
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I think it was cathartic for me to get back to sea, to get back to what I loved to do. ‘No one ever suggested it [counselling],’ she said later, ‘but I wish I had because I definitely had some severe post-traumatic stress syndrome. A disastrous reality was less than two weeks away, in the shape of tropical storm Raymond, which ‘tore out of the blue’, hit hurricane force then held its peak intensity for two catastrophic days.
Testing chief admits mass-swabbing scheme in Liverpool will NOT spot every Covid-19 patient but CBI... Lockdown-free Sweden ramps up coronavirus restrictions in its three biggest cities after seeing infections... Germany 'must delay all non-urgent surgeries to free up medical staff to treat coronavirus patients'. And it has now been turned into a Hollywood movie, Adrift, with British actor Sam Claflin, 31, as Richard and Shailene Woodley, 26-year-old star of the Divergent films, playing Tami. That was kind of my therapy, I guess. Tami shouted his name over and over again, but found only empty ocean.