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Kayakers died from hypothermia
The Georgia teens were lost during a school boating trip last weekend.
Associated Press
Published March 4, 2005
Two 14-year-old Georgia boys on a school boating trip last weekend died from hypothermia, according to the Jacksonville Medical Examiner's Office.
The bodies of Sean Wilkinson, of Acworth, Ga., and Clay McKemie, of Rome, Ga., were found Monday floating in the Gulf of Mexico after getting separated from the rest of the group.
They were with a group of students and adults from the Darlington School in Rome. They got lost Saturday in choppy waters while in the area about 100 miles north of Tampa. The two were believed to have been wearing life vests.
The water's temperature ranged from 58 to 60 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Tallahassee.
The afternoon the two boys disappeared, the National Weather Service issued an alert for small craft to exercise caution in the waters around the Suwannee River. The Darlington group left in three kayaks, three canoes and a motorized catamaran. It is not known whether they received the weather warning.
[Last modified March 4, 2005, 12:20:05]
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