Capsized Quotes

“The wind and breaking waves are drowned by a dull symphony of locker doors and hidden stores swaying and banging in the surging waters within Rose-Noëlle’s hull—gush-ding-thump-bump-claptack-thump-crack-slosh-ding-ting-glump-bumpbump. . . . The noises create what we call audio mirages. Voices spring from our subconscious, lulling us into daydreams and slumber in which the clamor of our prison becomes background conversations, soft sweet singing, announcers on the radio, the beat of reggae.”
― Steven Callahan, Capsized: Jim Nalepka's Epic 119 Day Survival Voyage Aboard the Rose-Noelle

“After the capsize, it takes them an extraordinarily long time to learn how to become a survival team, and it never works flawlessly. They are not varnished heros. At times they are fearful, weak, defeatist, petty, jealous, self-interested. Frankly, I believe how Jim reveals all the lesser but very normal human qualities that are impediments to grace makes this crew more believable than the characters found in many tales.”
― Steven Callahan, Capsized: Jim Nalepka's Epic 119 Day Survival Voyage Aboard the Rose-Noelle

“some relatively brief survival experiences were in many ways more challenging than some lengthy ones. What is important about an event is not its duration but what survivors discover from the journey.”
― Steven Callahan, Capsized: Jim Nalepka's Epic 119 Day Survival Voyage Aboard the Rose-Noelle

“Four months adrift is a very long time, but durations of survival experiences in and of themselves are only one of their many elements. Frankly, I had very quickly tired of reporters asking me if I had set any records (I had not, unless one multiplies the qualifiers to include “a person alone in an inflated raft”). I reminded the press constantly that survival is not a sporting event.”
― Steven Callahan, Capsized: Jim Nalepka's Epic 119 Day Survival Voyage Aboard the Rose-Noelle