15-year-old rescued after clinging to capsized boat for days in Alaska’s Bering Sea
The 15-year-old survived for nearly three days in freezing water, while his brother and cousin died after the skiff overturned, officials said.
- 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 survives 2 days on top of capsized boat; watches brother, cousin die
The teenager was rescued on Monday, September 7, by a fishing boat near St. Lawrence Island — a remote Alaskan island in the Bering Sea. He, his brother, and their cousin were fishing for halibut when their small skiff overturned.
A 15-year-old boy survived after nearly three days on an overturned boat in the cold waters of the Bering Sea, Alaska.
MIRACLE: Watch 15-year-old Alaska teen found alive after days clinging to capsized skiff in freezing Bering Sea drifting toward Russia * WorldNetDaily * by Jim Hoft, The Gateway Pundit
'That's all he was doing was praying. He believed that he was gonna make it. That's how he got through it. I don't know if news anchors can say that, but that's how it happened'
MIRACLE: 15-Year-Old Alaska Teen Found Alive After Days Clinging to Capsized Skiff in Freezing Bering Sea — Drifting Toward Russia as Brother and Cousin Die * The Gateway Pundit * by Jim Hᴏft
A 15-year-old boy from a tiny Siberian Yupik village on America’s western edge survived days in the Bering Sea by kneeling on the hull of an overturned 18-foot skiff, praying through the night, with no food and no water, as the boat drifted in 50-degree water just miles from Russian waters. Derek Parker Aghnaanga was pulled off that hull Monday morning by the crew of a fishing vessel after a U.S. Coast Guard aircrew spotted him about four miles …
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