Ice chests and a beer can save two men adrift off Bahamas
Two Florida men adrift for two days after their fishing boat sank off the Bahamas used a Michelob beer can to signal and two heavy-duty ice chests as life rafts. They rode 10 foot seas, kept a bleeding foot inside a chest, and were rescued after radio failure.
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Norfolk
Florida
Bahamas
Michelob
Robert C. Rice
U.S. Public Health Service
David Federico
West Palm Beach
Federico
Rice
Gulf Stream
Coast Guard
Teachers strikes mark slow progress nationwide
Parents rallied in Indianapolis and San Francisco teachers supported strikers as 32 000 plus educators walk out across 11 states. San Francisco plans to reopen 72 elementary schools, but the union vows to keep them closed with pickets.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
San Francisco
Robert F. Alioto
Michigan
Frank P. Huse
Indiana Education Association
Stanley I. Irwin
Sailors Rescued After Reaching Rokako Amid Gulf Drift
Federico and Rice recount their survival after drifting near navigational buoys in the Gulf Stream. A container ship Rokako spotted and hailed their rescue as the pair, frostbitten and sunburned, were pulled aboard with a lifeline. They credited Michelob and Pompanette ice chests for keeping them alive.
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Federico
Ederico
Coast Guard
Rice
Michelob
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