{"id":6604,"date":"2014-04-11T20:26:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=6604"},"modified":"2014-05-03T02:36:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T18:36:20","slug":"sailors-who-helped-rescue-family-with-ailing-child-describe-rough-seas-battered-sailboat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/11\/sailors-who-helped-rescue-family-with-ailing-child-describe-rough-seas-battered-sailboat\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailors who helped rescue family with ailing child describe rough seas, battered sailboat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_107087030.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6756\" alt=\"shutterstock_107087030\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_107087030.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_107087030.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_107087030-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN DIEGO &#8211; Navy sailors say conditions during the rescue of a family with a 1-year-old, critically ill girl were so bad that even the para-jumpers who dropped into the sea to help grew seasick as 5- to 8-foot waves crashed into the boat.<\/p>\n<p>After a Navy warship delivered the Kaufman family safely to San Diego on Wednesday, the sailors described rough seas and poor visibility that prolonged the rescue for hours on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>They also said the family&#8217;s broken sailboat was down to about a dozen gallons of fuel and kept taking on water because of the crashing waves.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte and Eric Kaufman sent out a satellite phone ping last Thursday from 900 miles off the Mexican coast when their sailboat broke down and their baby girl Lyra had salmonella-like symptoms. Her 3-year-old sister was also on the boat.<\/p>\n<p>Four California Air National Guard members parachuted to the sailboat Thursday to provide medical aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO &#8211; Navy sailors say conditions during the rescue of a family with a 1-year-old, critically ill girl were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":6756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,17],"tags":[1716,1295,2017,352],"class_list":["post-6604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-baby","tag-ocean","tag-rescue","tag-us","mauthors-gillian-flaccus","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}