On Tuesday, February 11, Mike Alexander and Dan Sauerwein’s search team emerged from the woods of the Sabine National Forest in sight of the Toledo Bend Reservoir. Someone looked behind them and called for the line to stop. Turning around, Sauerwein was amazed to see shredded canvas high in the treetops—material from one of Columbia’s experiment packages. He thought that if so much of that material was in the treetops near the reservoir, there must be even more in the lake.
