Boater missing at sea for 12 days found alive off Hawaii

HONOLULU -- A 67-year-old boater missing at sea for 12 days is on his way to shore after being found uninjured 64 miles south of Honolulu.

The Coast Guard says Ron Ingraham was weak, hungry and dehydrated when a Navy ship reached him Tuesday. The agency said Wednesday that he's aboard a cutter that's towing his 25-foot vessel to the Hawaii island of Molokai.

The Coast Guard released video of the rescue:

The Coast Guard had searched for him since receiving his mayday call on Thanksgiving reporting flooding in his small boat about 50 miles west of Kailua-Kona. In an audio clip of the call, he's heard saying he was in danger of sinking.

After the boater was rescued, CBS affiliate KGMB reports that in St. Joseph, Missour, Zakary Ingraham's telephone rang.

"They said, 'Well, we found your dad. He's alive and well on his boat.' For him to be found is awesome. I can't believe it," he said.

The search was suspended Dec. 1 until he sent another mayday call Tuesday. A guided-missile destroyer was nearby, and its crew members reached Ingraham and gave him water and food.