You were not a captain yet when you became lost at sea. Is that correct?

That's correct.

Basically what happened is you guys fell from the crest, yeah.

From the crest of a wave straight down.

Yes. And you said it was a 50-foot wave?

I know that as I was falling forward, everything within my peripheral was in the wave.

I never forget when I hit, you know, I just, and I started to duck down, I just heard this awful.

This breaking noise and looked up to see this crack going across our bow deck, starting from the right side, going over to the port side.

There's three words. It's the same word, Mayday, Mayday, Mayday.

We were in about, we're in about 6,000 feet of water.

90 miles out of the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.

Even though everything in front of me said, you're going to die,

everything in my eyes, you're going to die die i knew that we were going to live

all right welcome to can you survive this podcast my guest today is captain johnny savage

welcome to can youive this podcast?

Thank you so much for having me on. Looking forward to it. I love y'all's, I guess,

you're formatting and just the intensity of when you all hit with the rapid fire questions

and really makes you think. When you get in that survival situation, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, is, is, is, is, is, is most of it, I feel like.

Yeah.

So, um, you have a very interesting background there. Um, can you tell me about, uh, where, where are you calling in from? So I'm calling in from a place called it's called Vahalas Mission Force.

It's kind of like a in the same facility where place is called Vahal's Mission Force. It's kind of like a,

in the same facility where a place is called Vahal's Forges, that they do commission work,

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