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Boat belong to FL teens missing since last July found off Bermuda
Posted on 4/23/16 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 4/23/16 at 2:47 pm
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The boat belonging to two teenagers who went missing off the coast of Florida during a fishing trip last year was discovered off Bermuda nearly eight months after they vanished, authorities said Saturday.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission said the 19-foot single-engine boat that Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen, both 14, sailed off the coast of Jupiter on July 24 was found by a Norwegian supply boat on March 18 while on the way to Norway. The vessel was discovered about 100 miles off the coast of Bermuda, or about 1,000 miles from where Stephanos and Cohen were last seen before setting off on their fishing trip.
An iPhone and a tackle box were found on the teens' recovered boat, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Posted on 4/23/16 at 2:59 pm to Jim Rockford
Wow. I remember this story. I can't believe that boat survived so long
Posted on 4/23/16 at 3:22 pm to Jim Rockford
Damn - figured the boat sunk the day they disappeared.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 3:24 pm to Jim Rockford
Makes me curious as to what happened. I wonder if they got swamped off the boat or if they went crazy and dove into the ocean after being adrift. So many things could have happened and we will never know.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 3:33 pm to MC5601
Seems pretty logical to conclude they were separated from the boat early on. The boat was found originally off Jacksonville I think and was gone in the time between the coast guard leaving it and salvage showing up. Sad story maybe they can get additional information from the phone found in the boat.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 5:36 pm to Jim Rockford
That was big news last year in Florida, I was still living in that area at the time.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 11:07 pm to MC5601
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if they went crazy and dove into the ocean after being adrift
That would be a horrible way to die.
Posted on 4/24/16 at 8:25 am to TigerDog83
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Seems pretty logical to conclude they were separated from the boat early on. The boat was found originally off Jacksonville I think and was gone in the time between the coast guard leaving it and salvage showing up. Sad story maybe they can get additional information from the phone found in the boat.
Their boat is/was a very capable boat which makes it kind of crazy to think they stuffed it so hard it threw them out. I guess they could have been running with the tabs full down and took a big wave over the bow and turned it into a submarine.
I was always under the impression when they found the boat the first go round it was found capsized.
Posted on 4/24/16 at 8:42 am to MC5601
Same here. My guess is that they eventually ran out of gas or lost power and had land in sight and decided to swim for it. Not knowing has to be the hardest part for the families. Hopefully they logged some notes in the phone.
Posted on 4/24/16 at 9:52 am to Jim Rockford
Makes me wish more people used gps trackers
Posted on 4/24/16 at 1:27 pm to jmarto1
It is hard to believe that with all those helicopters flying around during the search that the boat wasn't located a second time. (after the CG spotted it and lost it)
Posted on 4/24/16 at 1:51 pm to cypressbrake3
I missed the part of the story where the CG found it the first time. How did they lose it? You'd think that they would tie off onto it and haul it back.
Posted on 4/24/16 at 3:16 pm to TrapperJohn
The CG found the boat two days after the boys went missing, determined that no one was on board, tied it to a buoy (I think) and a salvage team was sent out a little later for the boat. By that time they got there, it was gone.
Seems strange to me that the boat could get away from them after finding it.
Seems strange to me that the boat could get away from them after finding it.
Posted on 4/24/16 at 3:37 pm to cypressbrake3
I'm assuming they tried to Ping the boys cell phone, which was found on board. You would think, with todays technology, it wouldn't be that difficult to locate a lost person.
Posted on 4/24/16 at 4:18 pm to TrapperJohn
The boat was capsized, iphones don't work too well when wet.
Posted on 4/24/16 at 7:50 pm to Barf
how does the iphone make it in the boat, 8 months later, but the 2 boys don't?
Posted on 5/2/16 at 2:57 pm to El Jefe
Apparently a pilot thinks he saw one of them during the search.
"According to a report released this week, Bobby Smith told Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission investigators reconstructing the disappearance of Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos that he was flying off the Georgia coast on July 26 at about 1,000 feet when he saw two white pieces of debris tied together with an orange life jacket.
He went to 200 feet and saw a person waving his hands over his head. He said he climbed to 1,500 feet so he could radio controllers and when he went back down he could no longer find the person. The Coast Guard went to the area and also could not find anything."
"According to a report released this week, Bobby Smith told Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission investigators reconstructing the disappearance of Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos that he was flying off the Georgia coast on July 26 at about 1,000 feet when he saw two white pieces of debris tied together with an orange life jacket.
He went to 200 feet and saw a person waving his hands over his head. He said he climbed to 1,500 feet so he could radio controllers and when he went back down he could no longer find the person. The Coast Guard went to the area and also could not find anything."
Posted on 5/2/16 at 3:17 pm to BearsFan
Thats unbelievable, the fact that he had visual conformation that it was the boys and didn't stay around to try and find them blows me away, along with the fact that the coast guard now had only a few squares of water that they had to search and never found them
Posted on 5/2/16 at 3:24 pm to El Jefe
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how does the iphone make it in the boat, 8 months later, but the 2 boys
I'm guessing the phones were in a storage compartment?
Tragic about the pilot seeing them. I'm sure those poor kids thought they were saved after that.
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