(CNN) A fisherman and his son have been praised for saving the lives of two young paddleboarders who were found clinging to a lobster pot after going missing off the west coast of Ireland for 15 hours. Patrick Oliver and his 18-year-old son, Morgan, found the pair near one of the Aran Islands, approximately 20 miles from where they were last seen. Cousins Ellen Glynn, 17, and Sara Feeney, 23, had gone paddleboarding off Furbo beach, close to the city of Galway, around 9 p.m. on Wednesday evening,After a strong northeasterly wind blew them out to sea and a family member who was watching lost sight of them, the lifeboat services were called, according to Mike Swan, the Galway RNLI Lifeboat Operations Manager. Swan told CNN that the crew on his lifeboat had to be changed three times throughout the night as they continued their search.

Source: CNN August 14, 2020 17:03 UTC