A 77 year old
sailor who had been missing for eight days was safe last Thursday drifting in
the Gulf of Mexico just a few miles off of Apalachicola.
Craig S. Neus Sr. had
set sail from Baltimore toward his home in Panama City in June aboard the
sailing vessel Mariah.
The last contact with Mister Neus
was on November 4th when he made a purchase at South Seas Plantation in
Captiva, off Lee County.
Officials started searching for
him soon after his daughters reported they could not reach him by cell phone.
After searching about 80,000-square-miles,
Coast Guard crews found Neus more than six miles south of Apalachicola.
Neus’ sailboat battery died and
he had no cellphone reception to contact commercial salvage.
A commercial salvage company
arrived and took the Mariah in tow.
Neus and the Mariah were takemn
to the Moorings at Carrabelle for repairs.
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