15-year-old rescued after clinging to capsized boat for days in Alaska’s Bering Sea
The Coast Guard said the boy had symptoms of hypothermia after clinging to the overturned skiff for nearly three days.
- 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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Alaska teen rescued after boat capsizes, reportedly killing his brother and cousin
(KTLA) -- Rescuers traversed through the frigid cold waters of the Bering Sea to rescue a teen who survived after a boat capsized, reportedly killing the teen’s brother and cousin. The United States Coast Guard said in a preliminary statement that crews were alerted to an overdue vessel by Alaska State Troopers around 8:30 [...]
The 15-year-old Derek Parker Agnaanga spent two days on the hull of an inverted boat in Bering Sea ice waters and barely survived when he went fishing with his older and cousins from St. Lawrence Island on 4 September. The vessel turned over on Saturday, leaving the crew without food and water. The crew of a coast guard helicopter found a survivor on Monday morning. The nearby ship picked up the boy and recovered the bodies of his two dead relat…
The minor had symptoms of hypothermia when he got on the fishing boat that rescued him, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
The boy had gone fishing with his older brother and cousin when the trio's boat capsized at sea. The boy shivered for two days in freezing conditions.
A 15-year-old survived for about two days, perched on a boat capsized in the cold waters of the Bering Sea, Alaska. He lost his elder brother, then his cousin, carried away by the waves after the capsizing of their boat when they went fishing.
Brother and cousin dead - Rescued in the icy waters of the Bering Sea
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