Four fishermen have been found alive after vanishing off the coast of Florida.
The group – aged between 18 and 90 – set out at 9.30am on Monday (24 November) aboard their 25-foot green-and-white boat, called the Money Well Wasted.
They told their families they expected to be back home by 4pm, but failed to return.
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Their families reported them missing at 8.30pm, prompting a joint operation between the U.S. Coast Guard and the Clearwater Police Department.
Rescuers finally located the group at around 8.30am on Tuesday (25 November) – nearly 24 hours after they went missing – clinging to their capsized vessel roughly 26 miles offshore, as reported by Need To Know.
Police identified the men as Dennis Woods, 70, Clarence Woods, 90, Cris Harding Sr, 42, and Cris Harding Jr, 18, from Mulberry, Polk County, Florida.
Their truck and trailer had earlier been discovered at the Seminole Street Boat Ramp in Mulberry, but the boat was nowhere in sight, prompting the deployment of both a helicopter and, later, an aeroplane to widen the search
A spokesperson for Clearwater Police said: “The four were found with their capsized boat by the Coast Guard.
All four have been taken to Morton Plant Hospital for treatment.”
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