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Two teenagers who are lost at sea off the United States for six days were saved yesterday.

Driscoll, 15, and his best friend, 18-year-old Josh Long, were found on Saturday about 11 km  16  Cape Fear in North Carolina. That was six days and more than 100 miles (161 km) from where they had  17   from Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, on April 24.

The boys had  18  a lot of water and were tired, but in pretty good  19 . They set out 20  on a 4.3-metre sailboat on a  21  day when the National Weather Service had warned small boats to stay out of the water. They realized they were  22   almost immediately and tried to swim back to  23  ,  24  the boat along with them.

Within  25  , they were far out at sea.

“We  26  our fishing equipment on the second day,” Driscoll said. “So we couldn’t catch any fish.”

The boys’ hopes faded  27  each day. They stood on their boat  28  they saw another boat,  29  . One night they were woken up by  30  coming into the boat. A large ship was very close to them.

 31  was like some huge building in the water,” Driscoll said.

   At one point, the boys thought they had gone across the Atlantic Ocean and were close to Africa. 32  , they were 179km north of their starting point. A coast guard boat set out to  33  them.

    The boys got up and made some  34  . This time, they were heard.

    “What we have experienced is a completely surprising story of  35  . That’s going to be studied for years to come,” said Richard Goerling, Long’s uncle. “I think the boys have a book to write.”

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