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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Teenage boy rescued after days adrift on upturned boat
A teenage boy has been rescued off the coast of Alaska after being stuck adrift on an upturned boat for days. Derek Parker Aghnaanga was aboard a fishing vessel when it capsized on the Bering Sea, killing two of his family members. The 15-year-old’s boat was expected to return to Savoonga, a small village on […]
His brother and cousin died in the accident.
15-y-o rescued after clinging to capsized boat for days in Alaska’s Bering Sea
A 15-year-old boy survived on top of an overturned skiff in Alaska’s frigid Bering Sea for roughly two days, losing his older brother and then his cousin to the ocean after the boat capsized while they were out fishing. The teen, identified by a relative as Derek Parker Aghnaanga, was finally hoisted to safety Monday by a fishing boat near St Lawrence Island – a remote Alaskan island closer to Russia than it is to the United States (US). The bod…
The boy was the only survivor, as his older brother and cousin died in the accident.
Boy, 15, Survives Hanging onto Capsized Boat for Days in Alaskan Sea After His Brother and Cousin Drowned and Died
“I am not sure how anybody else would survive that,” said the captain of a vessel that assisted in Derek Parker Aghnaanga’s rescueA view of a U.S. Coast Guard vessel near Alaska’s Bering SeaCredit: U.S. Coast Guard Arctic/FacebookNEED TO KNOWAlaskan teenager Derek Parker Aghnaanga was rescued on Sept. 7 after days at sea clinging to his capsized fishing vesselThe 15-year-old boy survived for days on the capsized boat, while his brother and cousi…
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