-: When did you lose sight of your boat?
-: How - Long did, man, it took 15, 30 seconds. Oh
-: Wow. Yeah, it's
-: Gone.
-: Coast Guard Station, Wrightsville Beach,
coast Guard Station, Wrightsville Beach come in,
vessel handling this Coast Guard.
Go ahead.
Coast Guard station, right Will Beach. We just found a boat.
There is no one aboard Roger that Captain
request now if there's a GPS on with the vessel
with a track history,
-: I did nothing more than put the boat in gear
and it just putters forward
and Sasha's boat goes by 10, 15 yards off our stern.
Got the air horn out, started hitting it with blasts
and then just started having like a conversation about
how we were gonna deal with this.
Then I went through like when you jump on,
I want three points of
contact, you know, all that kind of stuff.
And then I said to him, I was like, are you cool with
what you may find on board?
I guess I was so prepared in my head to find a dead person
and when I jumped on, immediately ran in the cabin,
like kind of nervous, like jumped in and like jumped out.
I was like, what the heck?
And then it all clicked in my head.
I'm like, oh my gosh, why didn't I think of this
before someone fell off?
That was when we kind of went through this long process
with the Coast Guard, 20 to 25 minutes
or whatever it was just going along
and literally dotting the screen along the track the whole
way and relaying those coordinates back to the Coast Guard.
And after that It just kind of went like radio silent,
which was a really weird like I remember just being like,
I don't know what to say right now.
Yeah. And so then we just said,
well we're gonna go find them maybe 10 minutes in.
It wasn't too long, maybe 15.
I found a pair of extra tough deck boots floating in the
ocean and they were five yards from each
other just floating together.
Yeah, it was just a light bulb.
And so then I just went a little bit above the straight line
and then further south below the straight line
and then back up again
-: And I saw these, this boat just charging me
probably about a mile away.
-: It was like on my second pass back down.
I saw that big splash in the distance
-: When it came back the third time and I see it power down
and it's a little bit closer.
Yeah. I start kicking my legs trying
to get my body up as high as I can.
Just start splashing like this.
-: I was just like, that is either someone
or that has a big fish doing something and I just floored it
and just see this arm go like this.
Jeez. Just this big wave outta the water and I was like
-: Coast guard, this is Parker over, I have found him.
Coast Guard, this is Parker. I have found him.
-: And then it seems like it was, I mean here to
that wall over there I realized that's my freaking boat.
I've had all the background that I should have known better
and and had all the equipment on the boat.
Well experienced. It just, it just took one stupid decision
to not put that jacket on and roll over.
-: How long were you in the water?
-: We think about two, two and a half hours.
I mean on that jacket had a whistle, a strobe bay,
the waterproof VHF.
-: If you go offshore you should have a track on. Absolutely.
A hundred percent. We were all the old ones.
Yeah, clear your old ones that's have a track on.
-: Alright guys, I also want to thank Jack, Andrew
and Sasha for coming on today.
It's not easy thing to do to bring up a story
that was potentially one of the scariest days of your life,
so we really appreciate it.
You guys coming out and telling your story is gonna help
save other lives and raise awareness about
what could happen on the water.
So we really appreciate it guys.