Y4NK33 PL4N3T wrote:70 miles offshore...yikes.
Any info on the boat when it was found? Condition? Anchored or drifting? etc
An overturned boat was found Sunday belonging to two teenage boys who disappeared while fishing off the Florida coast two days earlier, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
The 19-foot white single-engine boat, which Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen, both 14, took out off the coast of Jupiter on Friday, was found about 67 nautical miles off the coast near Daytona Beach, Coast Guard Petty Officer Stephen Lehmann said. There was no sign of the boys, according to the Coast Guard.
A Coast Guard spokesman said one life vest was found in the hull of the boat, but the boys' families did not know how many life vests were originally on board or whether the boys would have been wearing them.
The Coast Guard has anchored the boat where it was located, and crews are searching the area off Daytona Beach, which is about 200 miles north of Jupiter, for the teens.
"This provides us an intelligent view of the currents in the area, which helps us dictate where we are going to put our personnel," Lehmann said. "Our priority is finding these boys."