It took an American private rescue team 15 to 16 hours to get Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado out of her country and safely on her way to Norway to collect her Nobel Peace Prize , and to be reunited with her family on Wednesday. The vast majority of that time was spent in rough seas, and the man who led the operation and met Machado on a boat told CBS News, "no one was enjoying that ride, especially Maria!"

"No one's blood pressure was low, throughout any phase of this operation, including mine," said Bryan Stern, a U.S. special forces veteran who heads the Grey Bull Rescue Foundation. "It was dangerous. It was scary. The sea conditions were ideal for us, but certainly not water that you would want to be on ... the higher the waves, the harder it is for radar to

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