The U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday that its crews recovered one body and continue to search for 38 other people in the ocean off Florida …
The U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday that its crews recovered one body and continue to search for 38 other people in the ocean off Florida days after their boat left the Bahamas in a suspected human smuggling attempt. Capt. Jo-Ann F. Burdian told a news conference that finding the other migrants alive is their highest priority. “It is dire. The longer they remain in the water… exposed to the marine environment … with every moment that passes, it becomes much more dire and more unlikely” that survivors will be found, she said. Searchers worked throughout the night after a solitary survivor was found Tuesday morning clinging to the overturned hull of a boat that capsized off the Florida coast during a suspected smuggling attempt. Crews on at least four ships and five aircraft already scanned a vast area about the size of New Jersey, Burdian said.
