15-year-old rescued after clinging to capsized boat for days in Alaska’s Bering Sea
The crew of the Northwest Explorer found the boy clinging to the overturned skiff after the Coast Guard spotted him and dropped survival gear.
- On Monday, the United States Coast Guard rescued a 15-year-old boy clinging to an overturned 18-foot vessel approximately four miles east of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, after days adrift in frigid waters.
- The fishing vessel departed Savoonga on Friday and was due back early Sunday; weather conditions prevented the Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules aircrew from launching their search until Monday morning.
- Captain Adam White of the Northwest Explorer reported the water was 10 degrees Celsius when his crew spotted the teen four miles from St. Lawrence Island and hauled him aboard.
- The teen's brother and cousin died during the incident; rescuers transported the survivor, who exhibited hypothermia symptoms, to Nome for medical treatment.
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Young man was accompanied by his brother and cousin, who died drowned. U.S. Coast Guard aircraft located the only survivor. Reimbursement was made by fishing boat crew.
The teenager survived several days in the waters of the Bering Sea without water or food before being found and rescued Monday by the American Coast Guard. Two members of his family died.
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Boy rescued after clinging to capsized boat for days in Alaska’s Bering Sea
Bobbing for days atop a capsized skiff in Alaska’s frigid Bering Sea, a 15-year-old boy held on until he was rescued by a fishing vessel this week, the US coastguard said. The boy’s brother and a cousin died sometime after the small boat flipped, according to the rescuers. Their bodies were found after the teen was hoisted to safety near St Lawrence Island – a remote Alaskan island that is closer to Russia than it is to the United States. The ca…
A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD boy survived for almost three days clinging to an overturned boat in the frigid Bering Sea.
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