[post_page_title]Rough seas[/post_page_title]
Bittencourt was known to travel everywhere with her dogs, and some believed they were also on the boat that day. Her husband reported that the winds were hitting their boat at 100mph, which was making it incredibly difficult to stand on the vessel.
Sestini said that it was the weather and rocking of the boat that sent Bittencourt tumbling into the water, not her attempts to rescue her dogs. In fact, when he recalled the time spent on the boat, he didn’t even mention his wife’s dogs.
