It seemed like a miraculous rescue. After seven days lost at sea, a 22-year-old castaway alone in a life raft was plucked from the ocean by a freighter 100 miles off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. Nathan Carman told the U.S. Coast Guard he and his mother, Linda, were fishing when they experienced engine trouble and their boat took on water.
"I got to the life raft after I got my bearings and I was whistling and calling around and I didn't see her," Nathan Carman can be heard saying on a Coast Guard audio recording.