Safe on dry land on Monday, boaters rescued after their boat sank on Saturday said the near-disaster that had a happy ending because they had an electronic homing device that they say every boater should have.
) - As he was treading water for hours in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, Biloxi resident Easton Barrett made a short video on his cell phone.Safe on dry land on Monday as he recounted the ordeal, Barrett said his thoughts drifted to the people he loves.
Stephen Maulding, whose father owned the boat, said he still has no idea what caused it to sink. But he added that it did not take long – it was underwater within a minute. Meanwhile, panic started to set in among the wives and girlfriends on land when they found out the boat was missing. Taelor Maulding said she had gone to a gender-reveal party in Madison, Mississippi, when she got a call that something was wrong.“Straight terror,” she told FOX10 News. “I was sweating. My full body was in a sweat driving down the road. I was trying to the speed limit, but it was a little hard because I was so worried.
The Coast Guard said the crew fished the boaters out of the Gulf about 17 miles south of Dauphin Island.
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