Press reporter gives aid to shipwrecked
A 24-year-old former Connecticut resident and her boyfriend were en route Thursday to North Carolina — thanks to a Mississippi newspaper reporter and a church that practices what it preaches — after being shipwrecked in the Gulf of Mexico last weekend. The couple spent three nights in a tent, living on food and water that they’d taken off the boat earlier, before being spotted by a passing tugboat Monday morning, which picked them up and contacted the Coast Guard.
Once ashore, Mississippi Press reporter Veto Roley brought the castaways to the Central Church of Christ in Pascagoula, where church officials fed and clothed them before buying them bus tickets for Asheville, N.C., where the couple had lived before moving to New Orleans in November.