Three men from Texas were rescued after their boat capsized and they spent a week at sea in August of 2009.http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-08-30-texas-missing-boaters_N.htm?csp=34
The men, Curtis Hall, Tressel Hawkins and James Phillips, left from Matagorda, Texas, on August 21, 2009, and were reported missing the following day. They were found by a private boat on the evening of August 29, 2009, after eight days of clinging to the capsized boat.http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-08-30-texas-missing-boaters_N.htm?csp=34
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Left from Matagorda, Texas, on August 21, 2009
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Reported missing August 22, 2009
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Boaters
Curtis Hall, 28, Tressel Hawkins, 43, and James Phillips, 30
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Boat capsized soon after they launched
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Spent eight days clinging to the capsized boat
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Boat was a 23-foot catamaran named Affordable Fantasy
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Found 180 miles from land
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U.S. Coast Guard stopped their search on August 28, 2009
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