Really Lucky Couple in Florida

[Serious News]

Couple rescued after treading water for 14 hours off Florida coast

MIAMI (Reuters) - A group of off-duty sheriff's officers on a morning fishing trip near Fort Lauderdale, Florida rescued a couple who had been treading water all night after falling off their boat near Key Largo and drifting nearly 70 miles.


"We were all stunned, we all looked at each other and asked are we seeing what we think we're seeing," Keith Salvis, of the Broward Sheriff Office's fire rescue department told a local NBC affiliate.

The couple, Sean McGovern, 50, and Mellisa Morris, 52, were in the water for 14 hours without life jackets or signaling devices.

When they were found on Saturday morning, they told their rescuers they had fallen off the back of their 30-foot boat the previous evening.

The fishing party contacted the U.S. Coast Guard.

McGovern and Morris were taken ashore, treated for mild hypothermia and jellyfish stings, and picked up by friends, U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Mark Barney said.

"As empty as the ocean was today, with only another two or three boats, they might have been out there for another two or three days and who knows what fate might have held," Salvis told the television station.

(Reporting by Zachary Fagenson in Miami; Editing by David Bailey)

http://news.msn.com/us/couple-rescue...-florida-coast

[Madpoodle]

She didn't look very happy with him on the news this AM...

[Ratickle]

I'd be dead. There is no way I could tread water that long!!

[phragle]

I'd be dead. There is no way I could tread water that long!!

Salt water is a lot different, you float pretty good. Shortly after moving back to toledo from dago, we were ot by pib and jumped off the boat to swim. Damn near drowned, I wrnt straight for the bottom. nothing like swimming in the ocean.

[Ratickle]

Might work for a couple hours, but 14????????


When I went to the Great Salt Lake though, I don't think you could drown if you were trying to.....