15-Year-Old Found Alive on Overturned Skiff After Days in the Bering Sea

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For nearly three days, a 15-year-old boy had nothing beneath him but an overturned skiff and the freezing Bering Sea.

He had no food and no water. His older brother and cousin were gone.

The small boat that should have carried them home had become the only thing keeping him alive.

Then, on Monday morning, a Coast Guard aircrew flying out of Kodiak saw something in the water four miles east of Alaska’s St. Lawrence Island.

It was the missing skiff.

And on top of it was a survivor.

A Fishing Trip That Never Made It Home

The three relatives had left the remote village of Savoonga on Friday night in an 18-foot skiff to fish for halibut. They were expected back by about 3 a.m. Sunday.

When they did not return, the alarm spread from the family and village to Alaska State Troopers and then to the Coast Guard.

Poor weather and low visibility kept aircraft from launching immediately. By Monday morning, the search had grown into a major operation involving two Coast Guard HC-130 aircraft, two MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters, an Alaska Air National Guard HC-130, pararescue specialists, Alaska State Troopers and local authorities in Savoonga.

The U.S. Coast Guard says the decisive sighting came at approximately 10:30 a.m. Monday.

An HC-130 Hercules crew from Air Station Kodiak spotted the teenager sitting on the capsized skiff. The Coast Guard dropped a life raft and survival equipment, then contacted the Northwest Explorer, a nearby fishing vessel carrying a crew of 13 and NOAA scientists.

The aircraft had to leave the scene to refuel before the ship arrived. Before departing, its crew dropped a line of flares across the water to lead the Northwest Explorer toward the skiff.

The federal response stretched far beyond that one plane. Two HC-130 aircraft and two MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters from Kodiak were launched, along with an Alaska Air National Guard HC-130 carrying pararescue specialists.

Alaska State Troopers and local authorities in Savoonga also joined the effort. The corrected federal timeline puts the sighting in the morning, hours before the fishing vessel completed the rescue.

An Object On The Horizon

Northwest Explorer captain Adam White told KTUU that his crew finally noticed an unusual shape on the horizon. They sounded the ship’s horn as they moved closer.

The sight waiting for them was almost impossible to believe: a teenage boy kneeling on the exposed hull of the overturned boat in water that White said was about 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

The crew used the ship’s equipment to bring him aboard. He was suffering from symptoms of hypothermia, but he was alive, conscious and able to speak.

White said the boy was chattering through the cold as he described what had happened. The captain’s account places the teenager on the overturned hull from the weekend until the Northwest Explorer reached him.

The fishing vessel had been working in the region with NOAA scientists aboard when it received the rescue request. Its crew changed course, followed the Coast Guard’s guidance and carried the survivor and the two deceased mariners to Nome.

What he told the crew revealed the full scale of the tragedy.

According to the boy’s mother, his older brother had become trapped beneath the skiff after it overturned. His cousin initially survived on the hull with him, but later slipped into the sea.

The teenager had tried to hold on to him.

By the time help arrived, the 15-year-old was alone.

White said the crew kept the boy talking while they warmed him and headed for Nome. His description was simple: “That’s one tough kid.”

The Detail The Coast Guard Corrected

Early accounts said the teenager had been found clinging to the vessel at about 3 p.m. The Coast Guard later issued a second correction to the public record.

The corrected account says he was found sitting on top of the skiff at approximately 10:30 a.m. Monday. That distinction matters because it establishes how early the aircraft located him and how long the Northwest Explorer still had to travel before reaching the scene.

The two other mariners were recovered unresponsive and brought aboard the same vessel. The ship carried all three to Nome, where the surviving teenager could be reunited with family.

Alaska Public Media reports that behavioral-health teams are being mobilized for Savoonga, a Siberian Yupik community of roughly 800 people. Local counselors and regional health workers are preparing to support the family, students and neighbors grieving the two deaths.

Two behavioral-health aides and a clinical associate were already on the island when the local report was published. A school counselor from Gambell and additional staff from Nome were expected to travel when the weather allowed.

That response reflects how deeply the loss reaches in a small, remote community. The rescue ended the search at sea, but the work of helping Savoonga absorb what happened was only beginning.

Rear Adm. Bob Little, commander of the Coast Guard Arctic District, credited the Northwest Explorer, federal and state responders, village authorities and other mission partners for the life that was saved.

He also offered condolences to everyone affected by the loss.

Two men did not come home. The teenager who survived will carry that loss long after the cold leaves his body.

But there is also no getting around the astonishing fact at the center of it: in one of the most punishing stretches of water in America, a 15-year-old held on until an aircrew found him and strangers changed course to bring him home.

A flare line across the Bering Sea marked the final miles. On the other end of it was one life that had not been lost.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

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Acts 28 ends abruptly and that’s never sat right with me. With the inclusion of Acts 29, we are given a nice well-rounded finale to Luke’s biography and some interesting closure to Pontius Pilate as well. Join me as I continue my Lost Books of the Bible series on YouTube, reading from Acts 29, 3 Corinthians, and the Phoenix of Tertullian.

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IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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