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"For a minute there I was thinking, 'This is very bad. There's 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, 'It's a person! Help him! It's a person,'" Hendrix recalled in the interview with WPBF. Lynch added, "You have to help. And that's just what we were doing." Lynch said he grabbed a life preserver and tossed it to the man, who dove onto the ring. Cornell and his crew said that when they got the man, who was wearing a life ...

'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 Burdian, commander of Coast Guard Sector Miami. “We offer our deepest sympathies to the friends and...