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Fisherman Lives To Tell The Tale Of Surviving 12 Hours Overboard

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A 25-foot rescue boat crew of Coast Guard Station Montauk returns to base after performing a search for a person in the water off Montauk Point. COURTESY U.S. COAST GUARD

A 25-foot rescue boat crew of Coast Guard Station Montauk returns to base after performing a search for a person in the water off Montauk Point. COURTESY U.S. COAST GUARD

Cathy Patterson

Cathy Patterson

sister of John Aldridge

sister of John Aldridge

throws her hands in the air for joy after learning her brother was found safe by a Coast Guard helicopter crew after he went missing from his fishing vessel off Montauk Point. COURTESY U.S. COAST GUARD

throws her hands in the air for joy after learning her brother was found safe by a Coast Guard helicopter crew after he went missing from his fishing vessel off Montauk Point. COURTESY U.S. COAST GUARD

Petty Officer 2nd Class Ismael Velasquez and Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael Levdansky

Petty Officer 2nd Class Ismael Velasquez and Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael Levdansky

both boatswain’s mates of Coast Guard Station Montauk coordinate search efforts for a person in the water while standing as radio watchstanders

both boatswain’s mates of Coast Guard Station Montauk coordinate search efforts for a person in the water while standing as radio watchstanders

COURTESY U.S. COAST GUARD

COURTESY U.S. COAST GUARD

A 47-foot motor lifeboat crew of Coast Guard Station Montauk

A 47-foot motor lifeboat crew of Coast Guard Station Montauk

N.Y.

N.Y.

departs the station to search for a person in the water off Montauk Point. COURTESY U.S. COAST GUARD

departs the station to search for a person in the water off Montauk Point. COURTESY U.S. COAST GUARD

A 25-foot rescue boat crew of Coast Guard Station Montauk returns to base after performing a search for a person in the water off Montauk Point

A 25-foot rescue boat crew of Coast Guard Station Montauk returns to base after performing a search for a person in the water off Montauk Point

COURTESY U.S. COAST GUARD

COURTESY U.S. COAST GUARD

A 25-foo

A 25-foo

authorShaye Weaver on Jul 30, 2013
Commercial fisherman John Aldridge was treading water in the dark, 43 miles from shore. It was 3:30 a.m. last Wednesday as he watched his boat, the Anna Mary, pull away,... more

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