15-year-old rescued after clinging to capsized boat for days in Alaska’s Bering Sea
The teen survived for days on the overturned skiff before a fishing vessel and Coast Guard aircrew reached him, while two relatives died.
- 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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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...
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