They threw the dog into the Atlantic in the middle of the night and assumed the ocean would finish the job for them. NT
By the next morning, she had drifted for nearly eleven straight hours through freezing water before a lobster fisherman spotted her still alive, clinging to a broken piece of wood with such force that rescuers later had to cut the plank apart just to free her mouth.
Even the emergency veterinarian said he had never seen survival instinct like that in his entire career.
It happened off the coast of northern Maine in late September 2023 near one of the small fishing harbors that sits between miles of rocky shoreline and cold gray Atlantic water.
That morning the sea was rough from an overnight storm. Heavy waves rolled across the harbor before sunrise while lobster boats slowly worked through the fog checking trap lines.
