Fishing crew speaks after finding missing American off B.C. coast

[Aquaholic]

A B.C. fishing crew has found an American fisherman who had been missing off the Pacific coast for weeks.
John Planes and his Ucluelet fishing crew spotted an emergency lift raft off the coast of Vancouver Island, Thursday morning.
What they found was shocking when they arrived at the life raft — an American fisherman who had been lost at sea for 13 days.

Fishing crew speaks after finding missing American off B.C. coast | Globalnews.ca

John Planes and his Ucluelet fishing crew spotted an emergency lift raft off the coast of Vancouver Island on Thursday morning.

globalnews.ca

 

[Fixit]

wow that's one lucky guy. must have been thinking about the end after 13 days adrift

 

[Capt_Ed]

From his family's perspective I can relate to the feeling of despair and then the feeling of utter joy and releif when they were found . They sank on Friday the 13th, my brother sank 80 miles off the Charlottes on Friday the 13th in Sept. 1976. He and his deckhand survived 6 1/2 days in a life raft, first 2 days it was blowing an estimate 75 knots. Raft rolled on the ocean like a balloon on occasion. I was always thankfully I took that trip off.