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To: Sully- who wrote (6070)	10/6/2000 1:30:43 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

See Sea senors.............. Real Survivors Missing Boaters Lived on Pop-Tarts, Beer The Associated Press H O N O L U L U, Oct. 5 — Two men said they survived more than three days at sea on Pop-Tarts, beer and juice before they were rescued by the Navy and Coast Guard. A Navy P-3 search plane spotted Ian Buscher, 33, and Tom Zelko, 40, in their 14-foot Boston Whaler 60 miles northwest of Oahu today, Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. John Cameron said. The men were hoisted along with Zelko’s black Labrador, Lucky, onto a Navy helicopter and flown to Marine Corps Base Hawaii before being examined at Castle Medical Center in Kailua. They were released in good condition. “We were just out in the middle of the Pacific — didn’t know where we were, didn’t know where we were going,” Buscher said. The two had left Kailua on Sunday for a four-hour pleasure cruise to Molokai, some 50 miles southeast, and back. Spur-of-the-Moment Trip The spur-of-the-moment trip was prompted by unusually calm seas and beautiful weather, the two said. Two hours after their departure, Buscher called his wife, Tracy, by cellular phone to report they had arrived on Molokai and would be home within a few hours. But on the way back, volcanic haze set in and the boaters lost sight of both islands, Buscher said. Then they ran out of fuel. “We shared a Pop-Tart a day and we shared a beer in the morning and juice at night,” Buscher said. They fed cheese crackers and melted ice to the dog, he said. Their supplies would have lasted them about 10 days, Buscher said. Monday, the Coast Guard searched an area of about 1,800 square miles, and Tuesday’s search was expanded to more than 20,700 square miles. “We were very confident that they were going to find them,” Tracy Buscher said today. “They’re both very seaworthy men and very strong. And we knew they were out there. It was just a matter of time for them to find them.”