SALTY SEADOGS SAVED AFTER 11 DAYS ADRIFT

Adventurers' own incredible story

LOST at sea for more than ten terrifying days, a pair of sailors and a dog were miraculously plucked from the jaws of death when the men managed to flag down a passing vessel — 215 miles from shore!

Kevin Hyde, 65, Joe DiTomasso, 76, and Minnie the mutt were headed from their hometown of Cape May, N.J., to Key West, Fla., aboard the 30-foot sailboat Atrevida II when a raging storm snapped one of the ship’s masts — and blew them way off course!

Recalling the frightening tempest, DiTomasso says, “I never heard a wind so bad. It sounded like the devil was out there.”