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"For a minute there I was thinking, This is very bad. Theres no one around," Stuart Bee said. Crew members Robert Lynch and Jack Hendrix said the sight of the castaway in the middle of the ocean will stick with them forever. "Next thing you know, Chase is upstairs saying, Its a person! Help him! Its a person," Hendrix recalled in the interview with WPBF. Lynch added, "You have to help. And thats just what we were doing." Lynch said he grabbed a life preserver and tossed it to the man, who dove ...

'It was nothing short of a miracle': Charter boat captain recounts rescue of man stranded 36 hours at sea

FORT PIERCE — The U.S. Coast Guard halted a search late Sunday for six people lost at sea after their boat apparently capsized last week several miles off the Fort Pierce Inlet. Coast Guard officials said Monday a search that began Friday morning ended Sunday around 10:30 p.m. without locating the missing people who were in an estimated 18-foot boat en route from Bimini when it capsized. “The decision to suspend a search-and-rescue case is never one we come to lightly,” said Capt. JoAnn B...

The Jolliest Bunch Low Tide Brewing: no explanation needed. The State Ports Authority is unloading land it doesnt need to support its maritime operations at the Port of Charleston. File/AP Gaining access State Ports Authority-owned site has no access could soon be finalized. The maritime agencys board of directors last week agreed to spend up to $4 million to build a two-lane road from Charleston Regional Parkway to the roughly 162-acre parcel known as the  Jack Primus tract. The land ...