Posted on 07/26/2015 7:37:46 AM PDT by FlJoePa
Coast Guard search-and-rescue crews are searching for two missing 14-year-old boys in the vicinity of Jupiter.
Austin Stephanos (left) and Perry Cohen (right), both 14, were reported missing after not returning from a fishing trip on Friday off the coast of Jupiter, Florida.
They were last seen at approximately 1:30 p.m after purchasing $110 worth of fuel.
Officials received a report that the boys had disappeared at about 5 p.m. after they didn’t return to shore at the expected time. The Coast Guard had covered about 5,300-square nautical miles by Saturday morning.
The Palm Bay Sheriff’s Office is also providing assistance.
The boys did not pack much food or water, and were due back Friday afternoon after fishing near the Jupiter Inlet, Coast Guard Petty Officer Mark Barney said.
Anyone with information on the boys’ whereabouts is asked to contact authorities.
Eleven seconds.
Sorry. :-(
That’s what I get for looking up the exact quote on Google.
Well, I don’t know where the sighting was, but my guess is it’s about 250 miles up there. The Gulf Stream could probably take a disabled boat maybe 5mph? So I guess it’s plausible.
The Gulf Stream will carry a drifting boat that far that fast easily.
Thanks for the info- I don’t know those waters. Would like to someday, so I’ll keep it in mind.
“Coast Guard has said they have heard reports of an overturned boat off the coast but it is unclear whether or not it is related to the two teens missing - will know within the next few hours. Per action news for Jacksonville
Hope they stayed with the overturned boat if so. Gulf Stream water’s warm enough that hypothermia isn’t much of an issue.
Prayers for their safety. When I was 14 we were pretty responsible with boats, though we took some risks. If the kids were raised around boats and the ocean they may be OK.
I just got Little Flash A a book called “The Lion’s Paw” b Robb White, which I read when I was in grade school. It had been out of print but now a small publisher has brought it back. I hadn’t remembered the details, but yesterday I read it in about 90 minutes.
It’s a kid’s adventure story set in FLA in 1946, about a fifteen year old boy whose dad was MIA, his uncle wanted to sell the Dad’s 30-ft. sailboat boat because a boat is a hole in the water into which you pour money; two orphans escaped from the orphanage show up, and the three of them take off. They leave an unnamed Atlantic port, fake out the authorities by first going north, then turn back south, go through the St. Lucie Canal to Lake Okeechobee to Ft. Meyers. So I spent some time after reading it looking at the different locals on Google.
Maybe you know it.
Uh-oh. Overturned is bad. Someone up-thread said that the weather had gone bad at one point.
A 19 footer isn’t much on open ocean.
Nope.
If you have some power and can keep it heading into the wind, without power, it's a very little boat in rough, open water.
see #34
Gulf stream clicks along at about 5knots or so if I remember correctly from me CG days.
If some one broke down at point A we always started searching in a northernly direction never S
It that 19 footer capable of holding 110 gallons?
No - that’s a misprint. They bought $110 of fuel.
I was on a 75 foot fishing boat once and in jest commented how big it was. (Been on lot bigger ones).
The skipper said, "When you get out into open ocean, it shrinks."
When the swells are higher than your boat is long, you might have a problem.
Reports are they are towing it in to identify it. Sounds like this might be the boat, as it has a black hull (like the kid’s boat). Local news bunny says to expect news in an hour or two.
I didn't get that one by Robb White. When I was in elementary school, I got one by Robb White named "Secret Sea", part of which dealt with the Battle off Samar. Real good stuff for a young boy ... and I still have the original paperback in my collection, 50 years later.
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