"Drifting down on swimmers is standard rescue procedure, but the seas are so violent that Buschor keeps getting flung out of reach.
SWIM Buschor rips off his gloves and hood and starts swimming for his life." It was the Storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high a tempest c.
SWIM they scream over the rail.
I]f the boat\'s not going to Buschor, Buschor\'s going to have to go to it. . . .
There are times when he\'s thirty feet higher than the men trying to rescue him. "Drifting down on swimmers is standard rescue procedure, but the seas are so violent that Buschor keeps getting flung out of reach