US Coast Guard law enforcement crews aiding people from an unsafe and overloaded 40-foot cabin cruiser about 20 miles off Boca Raton, Florida, on October 12.
ALMOST 100 people, mostly from Haiti but including one Bahamian, who were rescued from an overcrowded boat off the Florida coast had no food or water for two days, according to the US Coast Guard.
A Coast Guard helicopter spotted the 96 Haitians, as well as a passenger each from Uganda and The Bahamas, about 20 miles east of Boca Raton, Florida, last week. They were transferred to Bahamian authorities on Sunday.
The passengers told Coast Guard crew members they had been at sea for a week and lacked food and water during the last two days. The 40-foot cabin cruiser was overloaded with 53 men, 35 woman and ten children, the Coast Guard said in a statement.
No one was injured.
“Smugglers do not care whether you live or die,” said Capt. Robert Kinsey of the Coast Guard’s District Seven, citing the lack of sustenance and the overloaded vessel. “These people are lucky to be alive.”
Comments
John 1 year, 6 months ago
So was The Bahamad made solely responsible for transporting these migrants back to their various homelands?
Bonefishpete 1 year, 6 months ago
A week to go from say Nassau to Florida? I don't think so.
Flyingfish 1 year, 6 months ago
See, I understand why the USA is giving migrants to us directly by preventing them from reaching shore and making the situation complex but unless they are paying us to do the gatekeeping such arrangement doesn't make sense.
Its just putting stress on our already stress facilities and costing us without any benefit of it.
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