Man rescued after 66 days at sea is 'utterly thankful and grateful'

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CNN:

Steve Almasy, Ed Payne and Nick Valencia, CNN

Updated 9:41 AM ET, Fri April 3, 2015

 

(CNN)The last time Frank Jordan spoke with his son, Louis Jordan was fishing on a sailboat a few miles off the South Carolina coast.

 

The next time he spoke with him, more than two months had passed and the younger Jordan was on a German-flagged container ship 200 miles from North Carolina, just rescued from his disabled boat.

 

"I thought I lost you," the relieved father said.

 

Louis Jordan, 37, took his 35-foot sailboat out in late January and hadn't been heard from in 66 days when he was spotted Thursday afternoon by the Houston Express on his ship drifting in the Atlantic Ocean.

 

"I was utterly thankful and grateful to the people who rescued me, and I was grateful to God that my parents were not going to be worried about me," Jordan told CNN.

 

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