BOSTON (AP) – A man who was rescued from a life raft after seven days on the Atlantic Ocean said suspicions about his account of the sinking of his boat are compounding his grief over the apparent drowning of his mother.
Nathan Carman, 22, was picked up by a passing freighter Sunday about 100 miles off the coast of Massachusetts after what he said was a week adrift that began when his 31-foot aluminum fishing boat sank during a mother-and-son fishing trip.
Coast Guard officials interviewed Carman, and police searched his home in Vermont as part of an investigation into the ill-fated trip. He has not been charged with anything and authorities would not discuss the investigation into the boating trip.
In an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, Carman said he did everything he could to find his mother, 54-year-old Linda Carman, of Middletown, Connecticut, as their boat went down.
“What happened on the boat was a terrible tragedy that I am still trying to process and that I am still trying to come to terms with,” he said.