Survival
Against the Odds
Tami Oldham Ashcraft knows this feeling. At the age of 23, while she was sailing the South Pacifi c, Ashcraft was caught in a violent hurricane. The 50-foot (15-meter) waves
overturned her boat. Ashcraft, who was below deck, was knocked unconscious. When she awoke 27 hours later, the boat
had turned right side up again, but the storm had been so violent that the sails were destroyed, the motor was dead, and
the radio was lost. Only the rudder, which steers the ship, was intact. Ashcraft was badly injured and disoriented