A Heart-Breaking Story of a Girl Found Alone in the Ocean

It’s 1961, and Dr. Arthur Duperrault decided to take his family of five on a long-awaited vacation to the Bahamas. And the trip was going perfectly: sailing across the sunny seas, swimming in the ocean, bathing in the sun. Five days of maritime paradise. Kids laughing, adults smiling, everyone was happy… or so it seemed.

The events that followed are fit to make your hair stand on end. Even now, more than fifty years later, it’s hard for Terry Jo to speak of what happened on the fifth night, and you really can’t blame her… Lost, famished, scared, and drifting alone in the open sea for almost 4 days on a tiny raft. And all that when she was just 11 years old.