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Article: Survival at sea.(shipwreck survival accounts)(Interview)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
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"ABANDON SHIP!" may be the most terrifying words a passenger or member of the crew ever will hear. "We were waiting for hours and hours," recalls Isa Santana, who survived the 1956 sinking of the Andrea Doria with her six-year-old daughter Annabel. "If the ship sank. I was ready. I was prepared to go; l had my daughter right by my side."
"I remember there was a lot of excitement and hysteria throughout the ship," says Annabel Santana, who grew up to be a consulting manager for Wang Labora tories in New York. "Children don't have a sense of danger. I was fortunate that way. But I remember seeing people in distress. I realized it was a serious situation--so sure, ...