Transcript for Survivor describes Bahamas boat explosion

We' back with that ABC ws exclusive. The mother who survived tt publicly for thirst time. She and her dauh badly injed in the blast. Aberielle reef is here and has that story for . Good mning, eriell Reporter: Good morning to you, that family says their vacation start as any trip T the Bahamas might, with py of sun and snorkeling but their eaboat ride quickly turned into a nightmare. Now they're opening Abo those harrowing moments and the load to recer It wasn't ssed to hapn like this. Reporr: Staceyder recounting those agonizi moments O that tour boat as it exploded into flames back in June. Move the boat. Movhe boat. Repter: Cell phone video capturinth after the boat mysteriously sending thick black smoke billowing into the sky. Ten Americans and two bahamian crew members onrd at the time. Passengers screaming for hel desperate trying to escape the inferno. Bender now speaking out for the T time exclusively to ABC ne about her idyllic fy vacatihat turned into a tmare. Ealizehat I'm going through th air. I think S of head over heels D thought just flu me off the boat. I could see the fla and I started scng I could see and then maleka started yelli to because and I were the only ones ld a she said, I can't swim. Ian swim. Reporter: Fellow passenger 39-year-old maleka Jackson in the hamasrating her anniversary with her husnd not survive. I didn't kw how I could get her. I kn I was hurt then I realizha it was shallowndso got to her and shed ca feel my feet. Reporter: Bender fought for her life a wave of panic. Herter Stefanie who was also on that excursias nowhere in sight. I'm sing, where is Stefanie or and ovean hysterical. Reporter: Sni frhe boat I dire condition but once onre no medical personnel, no amnces. My friend Sheila just went in like H. Mode I call it and tookver Saide are getting out O here. They found a truck somehow and shut took Chae and I said I C't wk and she just threw me O H shoulders and she T me in T truck and they got tie in theack of the trucd we had very long ride to the ital. Reporter: This morning Stefanie ill recovering from a floridasive care unit, the 22-yd college student a lifelong dancer enduring more tenurgeries aer fractu H spine and breaking both PC bones. I sat by H and would ok H sweet little face think, I might never see her N ain. You know, I just want to see those beautiful brown es and sh looked pceful and tiful becaehe never to the same hospital as her daughter, discharged just one weeko, her legs still in casts after suffering both ternal and external injuries. Two Fors apart and I would get up to minenow she was downherend I would just say, you know, we're connected. You know, I wouldteer I had gone upstairs but I'm here. We're connected. Don't Woy. Eporter: Her daughter pictured here for the first time since the horrific ordeal those brown E open and a smile alongside the ic nurse and hail spent hours brushing the knotsutf her hair andolunteeredo it every week until sni released. I will wipe her tears D hold her Han and W here. We're going to take care of you keep telling her it's ING to be okay. Orter: Theour bt company saying their hearts and prayare withheictims and families of this tracc authority in the Bahamas coinue investigating T cause of the blast. There is nothing left B metal on that boat. Whye wen that one boat? You know, you Wust mane differentecision and there's guilt that goes along with at. Reporter: And Stefanie spiked a fever and the family saysll T oughts and prayers that pure in from all over the world is at I susining the and keepin positive They are continuing and, boy,to a mother's love like an of course, thinking of the family of the woman who los her re on an anniary, holiday and relaxed and something like that Haro hear the mom says she feels guilty Oh, please don't. Nothing to feel guilty about at To see that photo offanie smiling gives us hope.

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