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We had to loosen the lines on the boat. slack them up, they were getting so tight with the boat dropped. i guess the storm maybe sucked water out of johns pass, something that had never seen before, it is slowly coming back in. mike: have there been times why you said i made a mistake, i should have my head checked? >> last night, i had been on the boat for 3 nights, i thought about it for a minute, but made the right decision. been on the boat for a long ti time. melissa: why did you decide to stay? what was your thinking? >> the idea was to keep the boat in the slip. we're on a big 70 foot c...

Keys are disaster mortuary teams he said in a conference call. help is on the way, said the emergency management director, calling it a humanitarian crisis. joe drew is a charter boat captain riding out the storm on a boat based in st. johns -- i should say in john's pass, florida, which isn't far from tampa. how are you doing there? >> we're doing pretty good. shepard: joe, how'd you make the decision and why? >> i've been on the boat my entire life since i was a small child, third generation captain in the area, and chose to ride it out. i think the boat is very sturdy, stable, it's a big bo...