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[h=4]Mom: Florida teens lost at sea can 'get through this'[/h]The parents of two Florida teens missing at sea for five days<span style="color: Red;">*</span>expressed unrelenting faith Tuesday that their boys are still alive while a Coast Guard official acknowledged there are limits on how much longer the search can continue.

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The U.S. Coast Guard located a capsized boat that belongs to two missing teens 67 nautical miles east of Ponce Inlet, Florida. VPC


Perry Cohen, left, and Austin Stephanos, both 14 years old.(Photo: AP)


The parents of two Florida teens missing at sea for five days<span style="color: Red;">*</span>expressed unrelenting faith Tuesday that their boys are still alive while a Coast Guard official acknowledged there are limits on how much longer the search can continue.
Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen, both 14, were last seen about 1:30 p.m. ET Friday in the Jupiter area buying 28 gallons of fuel from the Jib Yacht Club and Marina. They were reported missing less than four hours later, after thunderstorms, high winds, big waves and heavy rains had swept through the area.
The boys' 19-foot boat was found Sunday, far to the north and 65 miles out in the Atlantic, dragged there by the Gulf Stream.
The boys' mothers, Pamela Cohen and Carly Black, told NBC's Today show that the boys grew up in a boating community and could make a flotation device out of a cooler, engine cover and possibly life jackets missing from the capsized boat.
"They have all of the skills that they need. It's the same thing if you look at a farmer, young kids driving tractors<span style="color: Red;">*</span>or young kids going up in the mountains hunting," Cohen said. "If you're not surrounded in this community or you don't have it running through your blood, you'll never be able to understand it. But we can assure everyone that these boys are skilled and knowledgeable and strong enough and have what they need to get through this."
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Petty Officer Mark Barney told USA TODAY the primary search area has moved<span style="color: Red;">*</span>north of Jacksonville and stretches as far as Savannah, Ga. -- hundreds of miles from home.
Barney would not speculate on how long the boys could survive if they were in the water.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>A Coast Guard HC-130 airplane and three cutters were<span style="color: Red;">*</span>involved in the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>search.
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Coast Guard Capt. Mark Fedor told CNN on Tuesday that "at some point we have to suspend our search efforts. It's based on science."
Fedor said water temperature, weather and the will to live are just some of the factors used in determining when a sea search is concluded.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The search<span style="color: Red;">*</span>already has covered 28,000 square miles of ocean, he said.
"We will never discount the will to live out there," Fedor said. "So we will do our best to keep searching aggressively. But at some point you reach a point where people can only survive so long in those waters."
Carly Black, Austin's mother, was resolute in her belief that the boys are still alive.
"Being on the water is in their blood. This is something they've prepared for their whole life," she said. "They're out there."
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