A 15-year-old boy miraculously survived the unthinkable: a harrowing two days atop an overturned fishing boat in Alaska’s frigid Bering Sea, enduring darkness, bad weather, and 50-degree water before rescuers finally found him.

Derek Parker Aghnaanga left the remote village of Savoonga on St. Lawrence Island on September 4th with his 35-year-old brother, Sidney Kulowiyi, and a cousin for a halibut fishing trip aboard an 18-foot skiff. The boat was expected home early Sunday. It never arrived. And tragically, the 15-year-old boy’s family members would die before rescue.

According to Aghnaanga’s family, conditions deteriorated Saturday night. Sidney was attempting to get his younger brother a life jacket when he became tangled in lines as the skiff flipped. Aghnaanga and his cousin managed to climb onto the overturned hull, but Sidney was lost.…