Raft Crash Narrative

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This was BAD!!! I’m Toni Drumwright, a prized member of the San Francisco Coast Guard. Today started with a bang when I was eating lunch and my crew got called in for a rescue in the bay where a raft had turned over. The crew loaded up in the helicopter and we zoomed down to Fernandez Bay. As we got closer, we began to see the victim of the raft crash. My partner, Beth Lewis, told me it was my turn to physically make the rescue. I threw the ladder out and waited till we hovered over the victim. It was showtime! I jumped onto the ladder and got to about the 3rd step when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. Then I saw it. It was an 18 ft. shark zooming at me. I scurried back up the ladder just in time, and the shark bit my towel hanging

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