1998 is a year that Johnny Savage will never forget. The book that this Virginia local and long-time offshore fisherman authored, Lost in the Stream: The Miraculous Story of Two Fisherman Lost at Sea, covers his experience surviving the aftermath of one of the earliest documented rogue waves in history. Here is the story, as told by Savage, of how he and his captain, Eric Bingham, staged in Key West and set out for Cancun aboard the 58-foot Jim Smith sportfisher Anhinga, unaware they were about to miraculously overcome the unthinkable.

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