MIRACLE: 15-Year-Old Alaska Teen Found Alive After Days Clinging to Capsized Skiff in Freezing Bering Sea — Drifting Toward Russia as Brother and Cousin Die
A 15-year-old boy from a tiny Siberian Yupik village on America’s western edge survived days in the Bering Sea by kneeling on the hull of an overturned 18-foot skiff, praying through the night, with no food and no water, as the boat drifted in 50-degree water just miles from Russian waters. Derek Parker Aghnaanga was pulled off that hull Monday morning by the crew of