{"id":21295,"date":"2018-11-06T08:24:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T08:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21295"},"modified":"2018-11-06T08:24:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T08:24:54","slug":"australian-pleads-guilty-in-wifes-sailing-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21295","title":{"rendered":"Australian pleads guilty in wife&#8217;s sailing death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Lewis Bennett and his wife Isabella Hellman had just welcomed a new daughter when they set sail last April with the intention of sailing from St. Maarten to Florida on a catamaran named &#8220;Surf Into Summer.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Bennett was the captain, a skilled swimmer and sailor. His wife was a weak swimmer with less sailing experience, according to court papers. Unlike her husband, she wasn&#8217;t trained on how to handle emergencies, prosecutors say.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">But two weeks into the trip, there was an emergency after they left Cuba. Bennett<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/05\/26\/us\/florida-woman-missing-at-sea\/index.html\"> reported his wife missing <\/a>in a distress call to the Coast Guard, who rescued him from a life raft about 30 miles west of Cay Sal, Bahamas, not far from Cuba in May 2017. Hellman&#8217;s body was never found. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Lewis Bennett and his wife Isabella Hellman had just welcomed a new daughter when they set sail last April with the intention of sailing from St. Maarten to Florida on a catamaran named &#8220;Surf Into Summer.&#8221; Bennett was the captain, a skilled swimmer and sailor. His wife was a weak swimmer with less sailing experience,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}