JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Robert Clark was aching and had jellyfish stings by the time he was rescued from the chilly water off Florida's Gulf Coast, where he had clung to his capsized boat for about 14 hours, he recalled Tuesday.
Clark said he was headed out into the Gulf of Mexico to go fishing Saturday night when the wake of a passing fishing vessel swamped his 16-foot boat.
"It was like the whole ocean came in on me. Within a matter of seconds, my boat went down," Clark, 43, said in a telephone interview Tuesday from his hospital bed at Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center in Crystal Rive.