{"id":31956,"date":"2018-11-08T15:23:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T15:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=31956"},"modified":"2018-11-08T15:23:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T15:23:56","slug":"husband-of-woman-missing-at-sea-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/11\/husband-of-woman-missing-at-sea-pleads-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Husband of Woman Missing at Sea Pleads Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) &#8211; Lewis Bennett and his wife Isabella Hellman had just welcomed a new daughter when they set sail last April with the intention of sailing from St. Maarten to Florida on a catamaran named <em>Surf Into Summer<\/em>.<br \/>\nBennett was the captain, a skilled swimmer and sailor. His wife was a weak swimmer with less sailing experience, according to court papers. Unlike her husband, she wasn&#8217;t trained on how to handle emergencies, prosecutors say.<br \/>\nBut two weeks into the trip, there was an emergency after they left Cuba. Bennett reported his wife missing in a distress call to the Coast Guard, who rescued him from a life raft about 30 miles west of Cay Sal, Bahamas, not far from Cuba in May 2017. Hellman&#8217;s body was never found. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/06\/us\/florida-woman-missing-at-sea-husband-reaches-plea-deal\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) &#8211; Lewis Bennett and his wife Isabella Hellman had just welcomed a new daughter when they set sail last April with the intention of sailing from St. Maarten to Florida on a catamaran named Surf Into Summer. Bennett was the captain, a skilled swimmer and sailor. His wife was a weak swimmer with less sailing experience, according to court papers. Unlike her husband, she wasn&#8217;t trained on how to handle emergencies, prosecutors say. But two weeks into the trip, there was an emergency after they left Cuba. Bennett reported his wife missing in a distress call to the Coast Guard, who rescued him from a life raft about 30 miles west of Cay Sal, Bahamas, not far from Cuba in May 2017. Hellman&#8217;s body was never found. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31958,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31956\/revisions\/31958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}