A Kenai father, two teenage daughters and two friends set off on June 3, 2011 by boat for a weekend at a public use cabin on the north shore of Tustumena Lake. The weather turned wicked. The 18-foot aluminum skiff swamped and sank. Everyone went into the frigid, glacier-fed lake, with water temperatures in the low 40s. The man and the girls wore life vests, but even that precaution wasn't enough to save them all. The father,  and one of his daughter's friends didn't make it. The other three girls, two sisters and friend, survived by swimming an estimated two miles to shore, then walking for hours to another public cabin where they awaited help, according to Alaska State Troopers.
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