{"id":75246,"date":"2022-01-26T14:59:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=75246"},"modified":"2022-01-26T14:59:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:59:10","slug":"dozens-of-people-missing-after-boat-capsizes-off-florida-us-coast-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=75246","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of people missing after boat capsizes off Florida: US Coast Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"News Desk:<\/strong> The US Coast Guard launched a search for 39 people reported missing when a boat capsized off the coast of Florida in a “suspected human smuggling venture,” it said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Coast Guard in Miami said it had received a report “from a good Samaritan” who rescued a man “clinging to a capsized vessel approximately 45 miles east of Fort Pierce Inlet.”<\/p>\n

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The survivor said the boat had left Bimini in the Bahamas on Saturday night but encountered rough weather and capsized.<\/p>\n

“According to the survivor, no one was wearing a life jacket,” the statement said.<\/p>\n

“Coast Guard air and surface asset crews are actively searching for people in the water. This is a suspected human smuggling venture,” said the statement, which was posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n

An image released by the Coast Guard shows the capsized vessel in the water with a man straddling the hull.<\/p>\n

Human smugglers are known to use the Bahamas, a group of islands lying near the Florida coast, as a jumping off point for getting people, many from other Caribbean countries such as Haiti, into the United States.<\/p>\n

Bimini, the westernmost district of the Bahamas and its closest point to the mainland, is approximately 130 miles (217 kilometers) from Fort Pierce Inlet.<\/p>\n

On Friday, 32 people were rescued after a boat capsized some five miles west of Bimini in another suspected human smuggling attempt, according to the US Coast Guard and the Royal Bahamas Defence Force.<\/p>\n

The US Coast Guard tweeted that its vessels patrol the waters around Haiti, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas “to ensure the safety of life at sea.”<\/p>\n

“Navigating the seas in overloaded and less than seaworthy vessels is extremely dangerous and can result in loss of life,” it warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Desk: The US Coast Guard launched a search for 39 people reported missing when a boat capsized off the coast of Florida in a “suspected human smuggling venture,” it said Tuesday. The Coast Guard in Miami said it had received a report “from a good Samaritan” who rescued a man “clinging to a capsized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":75247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n