JUPITER — For many, it is hard to believe that 10 years have passed since 14-year-old boys Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen left the Jupiter Inlet on a small boat, heading into the Atlantic Ocean on July 24, 2015.
They ran into a powerful storm that afternoon and were never seen again. The memory of their disappearance still feels fresh in Jupiter and Tequesta, where so many people came together to pray for their return and personally scour the sea for any sign of them.
A vigorous Coast Guard search didn’t yield answers. Eight months later, a commercial vessel found the boys’ boat about 100 miles off the coast of Bermuda. Austin and Perry were nowhere to be found…