article_snippet.sent: I'd already lost everything.
article_snippet.sent: We lived in the hold.
article_snippet.sent: There were no mattresses or sheets, but We found some wooden planks to put
article_snippet.sent: We stuff on to keep it from getting wet.
article_snippet.sent: For five days We had no food and little water.
article_snippet.sent: But at least it meant not having to make frequent trips to the "toilet," if you could call it that, which was an old car tire covered with a piece of cloth.
article_snippet.sent: Huge waves crashed against it from all angles and water leaked in from the ceiling as we slept on the cold metal floor of it, the smell of urine emanating from the corner.
article_snippet.sent: it approached we but was unable to get close at first because the waves were so high.