A family of four that disappeared after their boat capsized off the coast of Alaska has been official declared dead nearly two months after the tragic mishap.
David Maynard, 42, his wife Mary, 37, and their two children, 11-year-old Colton and 7-year-old Brantley, went missing on Aug. 3 when a 28-foot boat they were in turned over about 16 miles off the coast of Homer Spit, KCEN-TV News reported .
Four others who were on the aluminum craft were rescued by the US Coast Guard — but the Maynard family was never found despite a 30-hour search of the area, the outlet said.
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“They were just gone,” one of the survivors told the station. “It had to have been, I mean, it was 10 minutes, maybe 10 minutes from us having fun to the boat. The boat rolled like this tipped on its side and then the engines went down and just the nose up.”