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Remember this story from last year? The two 14 year old boys who went missing while sailing in Florida?

 http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/23/world/florida-missing-teens-boat/index.html

(CNN)A marine supply store sticker and engine serial number helped authorities identify the boat of two Florida teens who went missing at sea last summer.

The discovery of the single-engine vessel on which Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos, both 14, got lost at sea during a burst of severe weather on July 24 was confirmed Saturday by the U.S. Coast Guard and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
The 19-foot Seacraft vessel was found March 18 by the Norwegian multipurpose supply ship Edda Fjord about 100 miles off the coast of Bermuda, Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Ryan Doss said in a statement. There was no immediate indication of what happened to the missing boys.
The boat, which was floating in the shipping lane, was removed from the water by the crew of Norwegian ship, which was returning to Norway, according to Doss. Personal items including a cell phone and plastic tackle boxes were found on board.
The marine store sticker and engine serial number helped identify the owner, Doss said.
"The boat was subsequently confirmed to be the boat that belonged to Austin Stephanos," Rob Klepper, a spokesman for the law enforcement division of the fish and wildlife conservation commission, said in a statement.
The families of the two boys have been notified, Klepper said. The boat is expected to arrive by shipping container to the United States from Norway on May 16.
"The personal effects that were onboard the boat will be returned to the families of the victims, and subsequent information retrieval efforts from any of those items will be at their discretion," Klepper said. "The (fish and wildlife commission) will examine the vessel for any new information, and return the boat to the family."
On the Facebook page of the Perry J. Cohen Foundation, Perry's mother, Pamela Cohen, and stepfather, Nick Korniloff, thanked the captain and 16-member crew of the Edda Fjord for "recovering and salvaging the Vessel in which our son and his dear friend disappeared on."
"The actions of yourself, crew and company will hopefully provide more details for us with the hopes of finding out what exactly happened to our son and his friend," they wrote in the Saturday post, which included a photo of what appeared to be the Norwegian ship lifting the teens' boat out of the water.
In an earlier post, the family said, "This is an open Missing Persons case, and we hope that FWC reopens their investigation and utilizes the expert resources of other government agencies as well as the private sector if necessary to extrapolate the data from the recovered IPhone (found on the boat)."
The foundation was created after the teens went missing to promote boater safety and education for young people.
Days after the boys went missing, searchers located the boat dozens of miles off Florida's Atlantic coast, well north of Jupiter, the community the pair left days earlier.
The Coast Guard attached a data marker buoy to the boat because water was too deep for an anchor, Klepper said via email.
One life jacket was found in the water, but there was no sign of the boys. It's unknown whether the boys were wearing life jackets.
But the boat had drifted away by the time investigators arrived with salvage equipment to tow it about 67 nautical miles (about 77 miles) off Florida's Ponce de Leon Inlet.
"The data marker buoy malfunctioned, and the craft was not located again until its retrieval by the Edda Fjord" last month, according to Klepper.
In late July, the Coast Guard said it has done all it could to find the missing teen boaters. Their families, however, said a private search would continue.
The Coast Guard's week-long search after the boys were reported missing extended from southern Florida to North Carolina, officials said at the time.
Community holds out hope for missing Florida teens, but time grows short
The Coast Guard estimated that someone could survive in the warm Atlantic waters for up to five days at that time of year.
 


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One more piece of the puzzle.



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Interesting. And sad, too.

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This just gets worse. They only found one cell phone. The family of the boy's cell they did not find have asked that they other family turn over the phone to see if there is any data that can be extracted. Geo pings, pictures, anything.

The first family is refusing to let the authorities look at the phone...:(

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How sad.cry



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Ohfour wrote:

This just gets worse. They only found one cell phone. The family of the boy's cell they did not find have asked that they other family turn over the phone to see if there is any data that can be extracted. Geo pings, pictures, anything.

The first family is refusing to let the authorities look at the phone...:(

 I didn't hear that. I wonder why.



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I know people grieve in different ways, but why not let thso who are investigating the boys disappearance have access to the phone?

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It seems odd to at least not share the last texts with the other family, even if they are just innocuous comments like small talk.


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Oh I agree!

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Why wouldn't the authorities examine the phone before giving it back to the family? Something seems wrong there . ..

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Well who knows? Maybe there was some texts that have nothing to do with this that are something they dont' want public. So, you can kind of understand that.

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I would imagine the parents with the phone can't see the texts either unless they hire someone to get the data off of it, it was submerged in water for a considerable amount of time. And from the article it says the effects will be sent to the family, so I doubt they even have it in their possession yet.

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if they were adults would be thinking what a great way to disappear--otherwise, have to believe it was something catastrophic--either they were taken/killed or they were suddenly overwhelmed by the ocean ( swamped/capsized by a wave,etc. )--no calls,texts received from them at all ( at least according to records )



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I just can't imagine that they have a choice about the phone.

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I read the family is hiring someone to try and get the info off the phone, they were concerned about letting the police do it so that's why they aren't turning it over to them, but I'm not clear why.

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