Sole survivor is found clinging to overturned boat 60 hours after smuggling vessel carrying 40 people from the Bahamas capsized during severe storms just off Florida coast
A search and rescue mission was launched by the US Coast Guard after a boat smuggling 39 people capsized off the Florida coast on Saturday night The boat turned over about 45 miles east of Fort Pierce Inlet State Park after it left the island of Bimini in the Bahamas earlier that evening A survivor found by a Good Samaritan on Tuesday said that the boat capsized due to severe weather conditions and no one was wearing life jackets The Coast Guard are continuing their search and are calling it a suspected human smuggling case By Tommy Taylor For Dailymail.Com and Associated Press
Published: 04:42 GMT, 26 January 2022 | Updated: 04:43 GMT, 26 January 2022
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A sole survivor has been found after a boat smuggling 40 people capsized just off the Florida coast over the weekend.
The Coast Guard are still searching for other survivors after the boat, which left the island of Bimini in the Bahamas on Saturday night, overturned about 45 miles east of Fort Pierce Inlet State Park.
They were alerted by a Good Samaritan who found the surviving passenger clinging to the upturned vessel approximately 60 hours after it capsized. The survivor told the Coast Guard that the boat turned over after encountering severe weather conditions.
No one on the vessel was reportedly wearing life jackets.
The Coast Guard have called it a suspected human smuggling case.
Officials said on Twitter that they are searching by both air and sea over a roughly 135-mile area extending from Bimini to the Fort Pierce Inlet.
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