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Man who survived boat sinking, but lost his mother, to arrive in Boston

A Coast Guard spokeswoman addressed the media Monday by Rowes Wharf about last week’s sinking of the Chicken Pox. David L. Ryan / The Boston Globe

The Vermont man who survived the sinking of his 32-foot fishing boat — but whose mother apparently did not — is expected to arrive in Boston Tuesday on the Chinese freighter that found him drifting in a lifeboat on the Atlantic Ocean.

Nathan Carman told Coast Guard investigators that he deployed a life raft as the Chicken Pox began sinking on Sept. 18, but when he went looking for his mother, she had vanished into the Atlantic.

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