After a successful first day of fishing, we dropped anchor and tried to get some sleep before our early wake up call. (apparently fish don’t have a bedtime? they don’t sleep? This was news to me) We get started at 4am on day two, but after making only one set in the morning, one of the crew members told us something was wrong with her, she said her heart would not slow down and was beating too fast. Let me preface this story by saying she ended up being totally fine and is safe back home. 

Things escalated quickly and she started to have intense chest pain. She has had panic attacks in the past but was saying this felt different. We had her lay down on the floor and try to calm down, she was breathing so fast that she passed out. Captain Zach called the coast guard but in our boat, we are currently 8 hours away from the nearest port town. The Coast Guard speed boat was dispatched, but it would take 2 hours for us to meet. It was a long 2 hours driving the boat hard while she was on the ground writhing as the chest pain came in waves, taking her breath away. Finally, the speedboat and us met up, a medical team came aboard to check her vitals. She was doing much better upon getting closer to the coast guard. I went with her on the speed boat back to the nearest port town of Valdez. She got checked into the hospital and was determined to be okay.