I can still hear the gun: survivor of pirate attack (The National Post)
National Post · Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010
Moments after watching pirates shoot her father to death in a lagoon off the coast of Honduras, Myda Egrmajer grabbed a flare gun and chased the attackers off the boat.
"I said what did you do? What have you done?" the 24-year-old Manitoulin Island woman told CBC News Friday in her first interview since the attack. "I don't know if they heard that, maybe it was just the gun."
Ms. Egrmajer and her father, Milan Egrmajer, 55, had been on a boating trip from Guatemala to Panama on Dec. 2, when they took shelter from bad weather in a lagoon near Honduras. They were four days into a trip that was supposed to last three months, entering the lagoon despite reports of pirate activity in the area.
"We took precautions, but at that point we were afraid something worse could happen being out there in the weather, so we took that chance," said Ms. Egrmajer, who had not sailed before.
She was visiting her father, an electrical engineer, who had been living on his boat since 2008. Around 5 p.m. on their second day in the lagoon, they saw a boat of four men approaching.
"They didn't really look like nice people," she told the broadcaster.
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