A Coast Guard Air Station Miami helicopter located and rescued him approximately 30 miles from Longboat Key about 1:30 p.m. Thursday, officials said in a news release, over 12 hours after he was first ...

LONGBOAT KEY, Fla. — The Coast Guard saved a man clinging to a cooler in the ocean Thursday off of Longboat Key. According to the United States Coast Guard, the captain of the fishing boat reported ...

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A Miami man died and his fishing companion was found clinging to a cooler after their 25-foot boat sank in the waters off the Lower Florida Keys. Lt. j.g. Kate Webb says crew members aboard a Coast ...

A fishing boat captain who disappeared on his boat in the St. Petersburg area Wednesday night as Hurricane Milton made landfall was found floating in the Gulf of Mexico the next day with nothing but a ...