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Youth Still Dazed After Ordeal in Caribbean Sea
A Jamaican boy, Jason, aged about 12, survived two weeks adrift after his 60 year old father died at sea. They began from Tock in northern Jamaica, their 15 foot boat flooded, and a motor failure. A German freighter picked him up near Cristobal, Panama, with his health improving. he is to return to his mother and nine siblings.
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