A Canadian fishing crew couldn't believe their eyes when they spotted a life raft with a man inside it off the coast of Vancouver Island.
Captain John Planes, his nephew Ryan Planes and his Ucluelet, British Columbia, fishing crew couldn’t believe their eyes when they spotted a life raft with a man inside it off the coast of Vancouver Island, Thursday morning.
“Yeah, we couldn’t believe it that there was even somebody on there,” John Planes added while talking toThe man who was found was one of the two missing fishermen from the boat “Evening” which departed Grays Harbor Oct. 12 with the intention of returning Oct. 15.confirmed on X, formerly known as Twitter
The exact location of the rescue was about 40 nautical miles off Ucluelet, the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Victoria, British Columbia, said, according to“He hugged me right away as soon as he got on board. He was crying, he was just so glad somebody had actually picked him up,” John Planes said to“We made him egg and bacon sandwiches. … He ate two of those,” he said to Global News Canada through a smile.
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