15-Year-Old Rescued After Clinging to Capsized Boat for Days in Alaska’s Bering Sea
The boy survived nearly three days in freezing water before a fishing vessel pulled him aboard, while his brother and cousin died.
- On Monday, the Coast Guard rescued a 15-year-old boy from a capsized skiff in Alaska's frigid Bering Sea after he clung to the overturned boat for close to three days.
- Departing Lawrence Island on Friday, the group planned to return early Sunday, but family members reported the three missing Sunday night, prompting Coast Guard planes and helicopters to begin searching Monday morning.
- Video shows the boy in a bright yellow jacket kneeling atop the overturned skiff as The Northwest Explorer crew pulled him into a rescue basket; he was experiencing hypothermia symptoms when hoisted aboard.
- Tragically, the boy's brother and a cousin died after the boat flipped, with their bodies found near Lawrence Island; the survivor reported his brother remained under the skiff before rescue.
- "That's one tough kid," Adam White told KTUU-TV in Anchorage, while authorities have not released the names of the three individuals involved in the incident near Lawrence Island.
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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.
At the beginning of September, off St. Lawrence Island in Alaska, a 15-year-old boy was rescued after surviving several days on the hull of his returned boat. The only survivor of this tragedy...
His younger brother and a cousin died after the small boat overturned. Their bodies were located after the teenager was hoisted on board near the island of San Lorenzo, a remote island of Alaska Read
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