I am the Chris Miller that was rescued in this story!

We would like to know how they are doing after their rescue and if they were able to find and salvage their trawler, THE PACIFIC STAR.

We got emotionally attached to this story as there was the search, rescue, ship interview televised to our room, and Captain David Calabreze”s crew rescue thank you and question and answer session in the main theater. We came home with the ship’s video copy of the rescue and rescue photos. We also took many photos ourselves.

Our timeline of the rescue portion of our cruise is as follows. Just before midnight on November 12,2009 our chruise ship was notified by the Coast Guard that they needed to rescue people in a trawler boat at sea.
We had just gone to bed at this time and our telephone began to make a series of soft beeping sounds, not a telephone ring. We found out the next moring that the phone beeps were a way to signal to all crew that sometning was happening and to be on alert. when we were a breakfast we noticed that the sun was shining on the starboard side of the ship and not on the port side. It was then that the Captain came on the intercom to inform us of the rescue that the ship need to perform. We had changed course at midnight and instead of going southwest to Hawaii from Los angeles we were now going northwest to rescue the boat. We got an update about every hour on the progress and the rescue was done after noon. The cruise ship dropped the couple off in Honolulu 2 days later, homeless. They had lost everything, the boat they were going to live on and make a tuna fishing living from and all their belongings.

There was a full ship of people from all over the world who were touched by this rescue. Perhaps your newspaper could do a followup on this story and put it on the computer and send it to Associated Press for all-over publication.

We have verification of all the info listed above if needed.

Sincerely, Judi Strubbe

…and that’s the rest of the story.