The Prayer from Platform B

In 1987, a Scottish fisherman named Callum Hendry fell overboard into the North Sea thirty miles east of Aberdeen. The water was forty-two degrees. His crewmates didn't see him go. The trawler's engine drowned out his shouts, and within minutes, the boat's stern light shrank to a pinprick against the black horizon. Callum later told a reporter from the Press and Journal that he stopped swimming almost immediately.…