Houston Chronicle, March 7, 2007 GALVESTON - A 13-year-old boy survived 28 hours in the chilly Gulf of Mexico because the three adults with him kept him propped above the water line on a part of the sunken pleasure boat that protruded above the water, U.S. Coast Guard officials said Tuesday. Melquisedec Acevedo of Houston was found Monday clinging to a line from the partially submerged boat that sank Sunday about 10 miles south of Galveston Island. Two bodies were recovered and the search continues for a fourth man. Barhan attached the boy to a line to be hoisted into the helicopter and rushed to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.