It started out as an ordinary Sunday for 15-year-old Troy Driscoll and his 17-year-old best friend, Josh Long. The two high schoolers from North Charleston, S.C., took their 15-foot boat out for what they thought would be a simple day of fishing on April 24, 2005.
But the ocean had other plans. Within minutes, powerful riptides pulled their small boat away from shore — so far and so fast that it would be days before anyone knew what had happened to them.
Speaking in May 2005, Josh remembered, “We were trying to put the boat between the beach and a sandbar, but we hadn’t been out 20 minutes when the riptide grabbed us and dragged us out.”…