Conference Keynote

SPECIAL GUEST & KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Lieutenant Colonel Graham Buschor
Saturday, July 14th • 9:00-10:00 am

October – 1991:  Winter conditions can make nor’easter storms a normal occurrence for New Englanders, bringing strong winds and rain or snow. But this time, a powerful nor’easter created by a rare combination of atmospheric forces over the Atlantic Ocean, including the most powerful event on earth – the hurricane – could not have been worse. Meteorologists watched in horror as three completely independent weather systems off the coast of New England aligned to form a hundred-year event……the “perfect storm.”

Listen to a storm-at-sea story that beats them all, as told by one of the two helicopter rescue pilots that ditched in the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of that storm. Lieutenant Colonel Graham Buschor was Commander of the 101st Squadron at the 106th Rescue Wing of the New York Air National Guard on Long Island, NY. Surviving for five hours in the frigid water with over 60-foot seas and 120 mile-per-hour winds before being rescued by a Coast Guard ship, Lt. Col. Buschor will take you into the heart of the storm and describe a pilot’s mission to save lives while placing his own life in peril. The episode is detailed in the Sebastian Junger book, ‘The Perfect Storm.’