In May of this year, L.A. Weekly’s Tibby Rothman interviewed Mark Casanova, Executive Director of HHCLA (and a parent) where Mark tells a harrowing story about one of his sons.

In late 2001, 23-year-old Daniel Casanova traveled to Bangladesh, where he and two friends built a traditional sailboat, then set a course for Australia. The vessel began to sink off the coast of Burma. Help did not arrive immediately. When it did, it came in the form of a Russian captain, who defied orders not to change his Ukrainian tanker’s course. “You’re a seaman,” the Russian informed Daniel, “seaman have to save other seaman.”

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