Bodies of three friends who went missing during a duck hunting trip are pulled from Texas bay waters along with their pet dog
- Christian Ruckman, 18, Spencer Hall, 19, and Starett Burk, 25 were found dead
- They died from hypothermia after being pulled from a bay near Corpus Christi
- The friends were avid hunters and posted photos of their trips on Facebook
Three young men who went missing during a duck hunting trip have been found dead in a Texas bay.
The bodies of Spencer Hall, 19, Starett Burk, 25, and Christian Ruckman, 18, were pulled from waters near Carancahua Bay on Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The trio from the Houston area died from hypothermia after they went missing early Friday morning.
Christian Ruckman, 18, (left); Spencer Hall, 19, (center); and Starett Burk, 25, (right) have been found dead after they went missing on a duck hunting trip
Two of the bodies were found in the bay waters around 1pm and the third body was found three hours later underneath their 17-foot boat, according to the Caller Times.
The remains of a dog were also found.
Tempertures were around 45 degrees Farenheit that morning with light rain. The wind speed was around 22 mph.
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Officials learned they were missing after Ruckman's girlfriend alerted authorities they did not return home on Friday.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office teamed up with the Coast Guard for a land and water search that included an airplane and helicopter, reported KHOU.
The three friends were avid duck hunters and posted several photos on Facebook of their excursions.
Ruckman, from Dayton, Texas, was the youngest of the three men pulled from waters near Carancahua Bay on Saturday
A spokesman from one of the victim's family said the men died from hypothermia. A dog was also found with their bodies. Pictured: Hall, of Mont Belvieu, Texas (left) and Burk, of Wallisville, Texas (right)
Ruckman's mother, Teresa Trygstad Ruckman, asked people to send their prayers as officials searched for her son in a Facebook post on Saturday morning.
Upon learning of the devastating news later in the day, the mother posted a new status that said: 'Today is by far the worse [sic] day of my life.'
The youngest of the three, Ruckman from Dayton, Texas, was a cafe worker at a movie theater and studied electrical technology at Lee College, according to his Facebook.
Ruckman's mother, Teresa Trygstad Ruckman, was devastated after her son died
The three friends were avid duck hunters and posted several photos on Facebook of their excursions
A photo of Carancahua Bay, where the men had launched their boat
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