The video shows a Coastguard boat riding 5ft waves, trying to stabilize the rustic boat and complete the transfer of the migrants on board they had found ten. 18 others were floating adrift.
They located them Monday at 8:40 a.m., thanks to a Samaritan. They were about six miles south of Key Bone. There were 29 in total, one of them hasn’t appeared yet.
“If you watch the video – this officer tells us – the sea conditions were critical enough for commercial boats, including our speedboats. Imagine the impact on this rustic boat then ”
About the boat, only what is seen is known: christened “Aliusk”. The federal agency has not yet confirmed the nationalities of the migrants or other details about the composition of the group. If they said two people needed specialist medical care.
Regarding the search for the missing person, the agency says it has used planes and boats since last night to monitor the current in the area.
With more frequency in recent months, the Florida Strait continues to add owners of damaged vessels, mostly Cubans.
In North American waters, federal agencies are tightening security in response to a surge in migration — especially Cubans.
In six months of the fiscal year they have apprehended more than 5,800 on the high seas, the number will soon exceed apprehensions for the whole of fiscal year 2022.