Missing Ohio family found safe in Everglades

10:53 PM,
Apr. 5, 2013

Scott Schreck, top right, arrives in an airboat with his family at the Everglades Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area in Miami-Dade County. The Schreck family, consisting of Scott, his wife, Carrie, and their three young sons, from Ohio, spent a rainy, anxious night in the vast Florida Everglades when their airboat became stuck in vegetation so thick rescuers could not see them from the ground.

Written by

Curt Anderson
and Suzette Laboy

An Ohio family spent a rainy, anxious night in the vast Florida Everglades when their airboat became stuck in vegetation so thick rescuers could not see them from the ground. Fortunately, the searchers could hear them.

The Schreck family was found safe Friday when rescuers heard them blowing whistles and an air horn. The father, an avid outdoorsman, said he simply took a wrong turn and got stuck.

"Took a right and couldn't get the boat turned around," Scott Schreck, 44, said after he and his family were brought back to dry land. "This is the first time I've been out here, so obviously I'm a novice on ...