Sailor lost overboard

[Celestialsailor]

This in from Latitude 38...

"An experienced 38-year-old British sailor crossing from Osaka, Japan — where he'd been working for the last three years — to Hawaii, with plans to continue on to Southampton, UK, reportedly fell overboard on Saturday night about 575 miles west of Midway Atoll. Luke Stimson's fiancée, Laura Vernon, contacted authorities via sat phone after Stimson fell overboard — conscious and wearing a PFD — in 25-knot winds and 6-ft seas. According to news reports, Vernon was an inexperienced sailor and could only watch as the 38-ft Jonetsu sailed away from Stimson. She was rescued by a Navy helo Sunday morning.
An intense 50-hour search of the area, which turned up no signs of Stimson, was suspended yesterday. It's unknown how Stimson fell overboard".

For what it's worth. If I am sailing with one other person onboard, I would want them to at least know how to stall out the boat, deploy the liferaft and write write down thew position. I'm sad for both the victim and loved one that had to watch helplessly as she sailed away.