D’Angelo undaunted by fine: ‘I had to make the moral choice’

Chiara D’Angelo stood her ground Monday, Feb. 29, in a hearing room on the 34th floor of the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in downtown Seattle.

D’Angelo, who turned 21 the day before, wouldn’t let the U.S. Coast Guard portray her as a self-interested young woman whose 63 hours in May 2015 on the anchor chain of the Arctic Challenger were an exercise in irresponsibility.