Hawaii Man Found After 12 Days Lost at Sea

A man named Ron Ingraham has been rescued by the US Navy after spending 12 days adrift in the seas around Hawaii.

Fox News reports that a US Navy guided missile destroyer rescued the 67-year-old Ingraham roughly 65 miles south of Honolulu.

Ingraham went missing on Thanksgiving Day when he radioed the Coast Guard with a mayday and said that his 25-foot boat, the Malia, was in danger of sinking because it was taking on water.

The search for Ingraham was suspended, but on Dec. 1 the Coast Guard unexpectedly received another mayday call from Ingraham and resumed its search for the lost boater.

Ingraham told ABC News that his trouble began when his boat was hit by a rogue wave. He said the only way he was able to survive that incident was because he was able to hold onto a piece of rope and pull himself back to the boat.

He spent the next 12 days trying to catch and eat whatever fish he could find. He also spent most of his time trying to jerry rig his radio with a coat hanger in an effort to establish communication with the wider world.

ABC says that Ingraham lives on the boat and his a regular fisherman, which may help explain why he was able to survive for so long.

The possibility of Ingraham's death was so strong that it even motivated his son, Zakary, to try to travel to Hawaii to see him. Zakary and Ron haven't seen each other since some time in the 1990s, according to ABC.

Zakary is currently trying to put together the money he needs to fly to Hawaii from Missouri, where he lives with a family of his own.