NEWS RELEASES
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through Naples Daily News's website.
A Virginia man was rescued in Everglades National Park on Monday, after disappearing on a solo kayaking trip. Mark Miele, 67, of Williamsburg, Virginia, was located shortly before noon Monday by searchers with the Collier County Sheriff's Office. Mark Miele was found by rescuers covered in mud, hypothermic and convulsing in Everglades National Park. Naples Daily News writer, Jake Allen, relays in his article, "After Miele’s bag, with his wallet and phone, washed up on the bank of the Lopez River and was found by park rangers on Sunday, deputies worked with the National Parks Service and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to locate the missing man." To find Miele, deputies downloaded data from his phone Sunday night and found his most recent coordinates logged on Jan. 31. Then the sheriff’s office aviation unit began a targeted search of the area. To read more on the rescue, click here.