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Survivor clings to boat a week after Gulf mishap
Fort Myers Florida. A quartet in a single boat capsized off the Gulf Coast on July 16. Richard Van Beber 34 and his wife Jean 32 with two other couples clung to the overturned craft for seven days. Bobby Williams drifted away before dawn and Joyce Williams later came to share the same fate. Van Beber, hospitalized with his wife alive but exhausted, told of their ordeal and pact to survive for their children.
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