“We were on a boat in the middle of the ocean, and the boat is sinking. I really did think we were gonna die.”

Patrick Solomon, his wife, Yolanda, and their two daughters, Samaria and Sa-miya, were visiting family in San Diego. they decided to enjoy a day of boating on the bay and dropped anchor near a sandbar.

“We were laughing, we were talking, listening to, you know, Jamaican music. It was just so much fun. And it was just a beautiful day,” Yolanda recalls.

Later that afternoon, they decided to go further out, however, they had trouble getting the boat started.

“The boat was stuck a little bit, you know, so we had to kind of push the boat to get it from being stuck,” Patrick explains.

As the boat moved into deeper water, they realized something was wrong.

“Something didn't feel r

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