By Ryan Gorman and Associated Press Reporter The passengers aboard a sailboat that sank Thursday night in a storm about 900 miles of the coast of Bermuda are lucky to be alive, according to the ship's captain. 'We were preparing to die,' sailboat owner Leonard Rorke, 55, of the United Kingdom, told the Coast Guard in a recording posted to the agency's website. He, wife Lisa Rorke, 50, and 29-year-old Henri Worthalter, of Belgium, and a dog named Dexter were instead saved by the crew of a passing freighter. Saved: Henri Worthalter (left), 29, Lisa Rorke (center), 50, and ship owner Leonaqrd, 55, were rescued Friday from the Atlantic Ocean with their dog Dexter after it sank during a storm
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Their ship broke apart and sank about 900 miles northeast of Bermuda
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They were saved by a passing freight ship
Safe and sound: @placeholder (left and a right with husband Leonard) was saved from what appeared to be certain death