A lucky string of events and quick thinking saves seven family members who floated for 20 hours off Charleston, S.C.
A family fishing trip became a test of faith and survival as seven anglers - ages 5 to 60 - floated off Charleston, S.C., for 20 hours after their 38-foot powerboat sank. They were rescued when a sharp-eyed Coast Guard helicopter crewman spotted them under a sliver of moon.
“It was pitch dark,” says Roger Gouge, 60, of Marion, N.C. “There was a slight moon out, so slight that it was almost non-existent.”
For most of the night, the only lights he could see were that wafer-thin crescent moon, a red dot atop a tower 21-1/2 miles away in Mount Pleasant, S.C., and an electric-blue ribbon of bioluminescence every time one of them swept an arm or leg through the 77-degree water. Also on board were Gouge’s sons Rodney, 41, and Jody, 32; his grandsons Tyler, 15, Kaleb, 14, and 5-year-old Xander; and his son-in-law, Rex Willimon, 39.
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