A man is rescued after being adrift at sea on a life raft for nearly two weeks off the coast of Vancouver Island. The rescue mission was a stroke of luck for the fishing crew who found him. The man had been part of a two-person crew tuna fishing off the coast of Washington State.
Posted: Oct. 27, 2023 5:34PMA bright orange speck off in the distance piqued Ryan Plane’s interest when he was out on the water fishing on a boat five hours off Vancouver Island“We were just finishing setting our gear, about the break of daylight. I saw something floating about, quarter mile away in the distance. I just figured it was a bunch of garbage,” he told CHEK News on Friday.
They’re 41-nautical miles off Ucluelet – and their fishing expedition is about to turn into a rescue mission. John Planes, Ryan’s uncle, said they found a man who, incredibly, has been drifting at sea on a life raft for nearly two weeks. “It’s incredibly difficult to locate a life raft in such a large expanse of a search area. That’s why we’re incredibly grateful that the Good Samaritan vessel was actually able to locate one of the individuals who was missing, who was aboard a life raft,” Magee said from Port Angeles, Washington.Sign up for the CHEK Now daily email newsletter to get breaking news and the day's top stories sent to your email.
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