Friends are reeling tonight after the body of a Burien man was pulled from Puget Sound overnight by the U.S. Coast Guard.
The man's boat capsized just before three Sunday morning near Three Tree Point in Burien.
His friends identified him as 27-year-old Tyler Ingraham. Ingraham died but his female companion was rescued. She is at Harborview Medical Center in critical condition.
The guardsmen who rescued her said it is a miracle she is still alive. They said Puget Sound was about 47 degrees when they found her, and she wasn't breathing.
"It's so shocking to all of us," said Ingraham's friend Collin Kallid. "And it's just such a horrible situation."
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Friends of Ingraham are struggling to come to terms with what happened when the boat he and his girlfriend were in capsized in Puget Sound early Sunday morning.
"It's just a lot to take in," said Kallid. "This was just not the way that I at all expected to wake up this morning."
"It was just tough for us," said Marcus Green, a childhood friend. "Cause you know, we grew up with each other, cause we really ate off the same plate. Everything, like, we did everything together."
The U. S. Coast Guard got the distress call just before 3 a.m.
"Headed out towards Three Tree point," said Bosun Mate 1 Travis Curley, "which is where the last known position the boat was."
Curley and his crew raced out to Puget Sound. A Coast Guard helicopter was also sent. It took 25 minutes for Curley and his crew to reach the stranded couple.
"The helicopter ended up spotting them," said Bosun Mate 2 Jordan Kuehl. "And kind of directed us towards their location."
They found the woman unresponsive in the water.
They performed CPR for 30 minutes as they headed back to shore. The guardsmen said the water was rough, producing four foot waves.
Curley was asked if they would have gone out in the 15-foot boat like the one the couple was in.
"Absolutely not," said Curley.
"Absolutely not?" he was asked.
"Absolutely not," he repeated.
"Why not?" he was asked.
"Just the size of the boat," he said, "and not having propulsion."
Curley said they weren't wearing life jackets either. A short time after Ingraham was found, he was pronounced dead.
As for their boat: only the bow was visible by the time the Coast Guard arrived.
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