A charter boat rescue story from Florida

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Normally I would write good news stories about persons getting rescued from burning buildings or burning autos. In this case where a boat captain named Chase Cornell who is in charge of a boat named the Southern Eagle saw a blip on his radar screen where he thought that it would be a good place to take his six passengers to catch some fish. When the boat arrived at the are where the radar blip came from, he saw one man who was clinging to a capsized vessel who survived being stranded in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Florida for a period of 36 hours. The rescue of the man who was clinging to a capsized vessel took place on Friday. Captain Cornell took the chance to rescue the man who was with six other passengers who are presumed deceased when the boat capsized. Captain Cornell tossed the lonely man who is from Jamaica his life preserver to get him aboard his boat and make him feel comfortable. What kept the lone man afloat was that he was wearing a life jacket. The name of the man has not been released. He did mention that he left Bahamas with his passengers when the 18 foot boat capsized at sea two days earlier. Thanks to Captain Cornell and his crew, the survivor of the boat accident is making a full recovery at a hospital in Fort Pierce Florida. Captain Cornell called the rescue of the man at sea "A miracle."