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A teenager drowning off the Cornish Coast was saved after he used his phone to post an SOS message on Facebook. The 18-year-old’s dinghy capsized – but he managed to type a message on his phone before it got too wet.

The rescue crew was scrambled from Fowey and by the time the teenager was picked up a mile off shore, he had been treading water for two hours.

(READ the story in ITV.com)

 Photo by Nekanaiz, CC license

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