"Miracle": 1 of 2 missing US fishermen found adrift in life raft off Vancouver Island

After 13 days stranded at sea, one of two U.S. fishermen missing off the Pacific coast was rescued in the waters off Vancouver Island Thursday, in what one U.S. Coast Guard official described as a “miracle.”

The two missing men were aboard the 43-foot vessel 'Evening,' which departed Westport at the south end of the Olympic Peninsula on Oct. 12. They failed to return as planned three days later, and were reported missing this past Sunday by one of their children.

A U.S. Coast Guard spokesperson said two flight crews from Alaska and a helicopter based in Astoria then launched a massive search, combing more than 36,000 square kilometres of ocean.

On Wednesday, U.S. officials suspended the search for the two men.

Incredibly, just one day later, a civilian vessel found one of the two men alive in a tiny life raft in waters about 40 nautical miles of Ucluelet, according to the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Victoria.

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