Charlie Hutton was swept overboard from his father's rigid inflatable boat by a large wave during a family trip with two school friends on 20 July.

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Rescued were U.S. citizens Jordan Hanssen, 29, and Patrick Flemming, 31, along with Canadian citizens Adam Kreck, 31, and Marcus Pukonen, 30, who were 73 days into the expedition when a rogue wave reportedly caused their 29-foot row boat, theJames Robert Hanssen, to capsize.

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We moved to a larger boat, put on out BCDs and just waited for the second wave but it never came.

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For years, she had tried in vain to make sense of that moment of farewell, but all she could recall was two heads bobbing before vanishing under the boat, the linked arms of two other friends, and a wave from Meimei, the youngest of the six, as she sank beneath the surface.

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As the rescue boat reached Mr Quincy's bungalow, it was swamped by a wave, but he and the crew jumped to safety.

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