Teen's Survival in Gulf 'Pretty Amazing': Friends, Father Likely Tried to Keep Him Out of Water As They Awaited Help
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By Harvey Rice, Houston Chronicle  Mar. 7--GALVESTON -- A 13-year-old boy survived 28 hours in the chilly Gulf of Mexico because the three adults with him kept him propped above the water line on a part of the sunken pleasure boat that protruded above the water, U.S.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  May 26--Visitors unfamiliar with the often-dangerous waters of the Gulf of Mexico should really use caution before going into the water this holiday weekend.
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An ice cream party is in the future for an autistic young man rescued after spending four cold days alone in the West Virginia wilderness without food or water. Jacob Allen's autism complicated the search for him, as the teen is non-verbal.
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By MARCUS KABEL  SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Fishermen rescued a 5-year-old girl who was thrown into lake before dawn Wednesday, and divers searched the water for another possible victim before determining the child's mother was safe.
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When the first waves rolled in, A.D. Chandaratna was mending a fishing net on the beach in front of the single-story  house he shares with his wife and four children. Fearing for their safety, he did the sensible thing and evacuated them to higher ground. Then he committed what could have been a fatal mistake: He went back to take a second look.
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THE father of teenage shark attack victim Nick Peterson said yesterday his son loved the ocean and had a zest for life. The 18-year-old was taken by a great white shark off West Beach on Thursday afternoon.
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When the raging ocean waters subsided, 7-year-old Karl Nilsson from Sweden thought he had been transported to another city. He was still in the same place, but his parents
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By J.R. Welsh, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 12--GULFPORT -- Sometimes Bob and Edna Boyd feel as if their fate is being held in the hand of a giant they cannot see. All they can do is feel the squeeze.
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REDMOND, Wash. -- She says she &quot;might be late for curfew,&quot; but a Washington state teen has been found alive after an eight-day search.
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(Panama City Beach, Florida-AP) Sept. 14, 2004 - Hurricane Ivan&#39;s winds have weakend to 140 miles-per-hour, but that&#39;s not stopping some Gulf Coast residents from getting out of the way of Hurricane Ivan.
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Gulf Coast residents kept a watchful eye and the oil industry began making preparations Thursday as forecasters warned that a weather system swirling over waters west of Florida could become a tropical storm.
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PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. - Apprehensive coastal residents from Florida's Panhandle to Louisiana prepared to flee from massive Hurricane Ivan, which has entered the Gulf of Mexico and is on a collision course with the Gulf Coast...
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A 17-year-old girl who survived eight days after her car crashed and tumbled 200 feet down a ravine may have been saved by her own dehydration, which prevented the expansion of a blood clot in her brain, doctors said.
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A crew of five rescued off the coast of Cornwall after spending eight days adrift in a liferaft have spoken of their &quot;exhausting and frightening&quot; ordeal.
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A TEENAGER has escaped from the jaws of a saltwater crocodile while hunting in a remote area of the Northern Territory. The 17-year-old boy was grabbed on the leg and dragged into a billabong by the 2.6m crocodile, before managing to escape.
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Five children &amp;#151; four of them siblings &amp;#151; drowned during a church outing when they were caught in a river&#039;s current, apparently while trying to help a sixth child who was rescued, authorities and the victims&#039; relatives said Monday.
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Across his tsunami-devastated island, his relatives, friends and teachers lay dead, lost in water that submerged his home. As Koshi Mackenroe John hunkered down on a hill with his parents, there was little he could do except wait for rescuers.