Coast Guard suspends search for missing boat with 20 people aboard

[Serious News]

MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for 20 missing boaters who did not arrive in Florida from the Bahamas.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the missing people,” Capt. Stephen V. Burdian, Seventh District Chief of Response, said in a statement. “I encourage anyone with information about the people aboard to contact us as soon as possible.”

The boat’s name and information about who was on board have not been released, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported.

A blue and white 29-foot Mako Cuddy Cabin vessel was reported missing Tuesday when it did not arrive in Lake Worth, Florida, after departing Bimini on Monday, Coast Guard officials said.

For 84 hours, rescuers searched the Gulf Stream between the Bahamas and South Florida for the boaters. The search covered roughly 17,000 square miles.

“They take into account the size of the vessel, the amount of gasoline, the motor it has,” Coast Guard Petty Officer Jose Hernandez told WPTV. “Then you have other people that plot the actual currents, the actual weather involved.”

[Ratickle]

That is really odd.

20 people on a 29' boat going from Bimini to Florida?

It will be interesting to find out why. And I hope they turn up......

[Bobcat]

Human Smuggling?

[Ratickle]

This is kind of odd.....


I've been watching for more info. Now the Coast Guard is saying they don't know anything about the crew and that is one of the reasons they did not have a good idea of where to concentrate their search area.

You think the boat is not really missing? It was smuggling?

[Bobcat]

Too many People for a Pleasure Cruise....

[john acosta]

OSS sneaking in alien boatracers to take over offshore again!!!

[Ratickle]

It has been impossible to find out more info.

I'm starting to think there was no lost boat, it was a scam to get all of the Coast Guard out of the way for some smuggling operation of some kind.

[Blue Oval]

You have been watching to much Netflix.