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Tug rescued sole survivor of boat with 40 people

Rescue crews recovered one body but hopes dimmed for 38 other people lost at sea from a capsized boat off Florida's coast. The SAR operation stretched through a second full day on Jan 26. One lone survivor was rescued from the overturned in rough seas in the morning of Jan 23. He was found clinging to the overturned vessel on Jan 25 and reported the boathad left the Bahamas' Bimini islands, about 50 miles east of Miami, in the night of Jan 22. The vessel capsized the next morning about 45 miles east of Fort Pierce Inlet midway between Miami and Cape Canaveral. The survivor was spotted at around 8 a.m. by a crew member of the 'Signet Intruder' which was towing a large barge that was 2,500 feet behind. It therefore took some finesse to get close enough to the vessel and not cause any waves to knock the man off. The crew immediately alerted the Coast Guard. Coast Guard cutters, helicopter teams, search planes and a U.S. Navy air crew crisscrossed an area spanning more than 1,300 square miles about the size of Rhode Island, between Bimini and Fort Pierce Inlet on Jan 26. Report with photos: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/u-coast-guard-finds-one-143455086.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFMo7CiHUXXvhzD_QXMp0ZbCxEQKWRRUgsp8pCOprU6_hUlqEk2kjeWUYgNThkxHJ5i7T0oa0bwYvxujLW9mbgCp6Ec7De2ooqrjx5zoYBn79GjtXQNeBBNeay13U-mJUbzTKuiDEVO0IwMKG67rnXr178pdxRmhQhwGXegwQKnR

Offshore vessel assisted in rescue of shipwrecked fishermen

Coast Guard Sector San Juan watchstanders received a report from the 'Signet Intruder' reporting they were flagged down by two people in a vessel 23 miles northeast of Cat Island, Bahamas, on May 18, 2020, who reported to have been adrift for approximately two weeks. The watchstanders directed the launch of a Jayhawk helicopterof the Air Station Clearwater MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew, forward deployed for Operation Bahamas Turks and Caicos (OPBAT),to assist. Rescued were Domingo Jimenez, 45, and Ramon Castillo, 29, both from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. They were safely transferred to Bahamian Authorities in Nassau, Bahamas. On May 5, San Juan watchstanders received a report from a concerned family member of an overdue 25-foot fishing vessel with two people aboard approximately 132 miles northeast of Samana, Dominican Republic. The two men reportedly departed Samana May 2 to fish and were expected back May 5. Jimenez and Castillo reportedly encountered severe weather and lost their outboard engine leaving them stranded and adrift.