On June 25, 2005, the Silverwood family of California crashed into the reef in a 55-foot catamaran, the "Emerald Jane". Thanks to an EPIRB distress call, the family was spotted by a French Navy airplane, picked up by the resident Taputo family, and flown out in a helicopter on June 26. John Silverwood, the captain of the "Emerald Jane", would lose his leg, and the experience is described in the book "Black Wave". It was also featured in an episode of "I Shouldn't Be Alive" and "I Survived..."