Alaskan Boy, 15, Who Survived 62 Hours at Sea Makes Horrifying Revelation after Being Rescued

A 15-year-old Alaskan boy rescued from a capsized boat after three days made a horrifying revelation when he was pulled to safety by a passing fishing vessel.

Derek Parker Aghnaanga had been fishing for halibut along with his cousin and brother when their small skiff overturned near St. Lawrence Island and drifted into the Bering Sea Sept. 4.

He was the only survivor, and watched his brother and cousin die.

“Through the teeth chattering, he had mentioned that his brother was still under the skiff and then he said that in the previous night before our rescue that his cousin had slipped away off the top of the skiff,” Adam White, captain of the Northwest Explorer, told Alaska’s News Source.

The Coast Guard spotted the teen clinging to his capsized skiff at around 10:30 a.m. Monday, after Alaska State Troopers notified them on Sunday night that the party hadn’t returned home, and asked the Northwest Explorer and its crew of 13 to pick him up.

“We saw the unusual object on the horizon. We blasted our horn a couple times,” White said. (Read more from “Alaskan Boy, 15, Who Survived 62 Hours at Sea Makes Horrifying Revelation after Being Rescued” HERE)

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