Rescue teams searched overnight Tuesday for 38 people missing in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the US state of Florida after a man was found clinging to a boat that had capsized in an episode described by the Coast Guard. of the United States as a failed attempt at human trafficking.
Initially, there were 39 missing. A body was found by local authorities.
The man who survived clinging to the boat told authorities he left the Bimini Islands in the Bahamas, about 80 km east of Miami, with 39 others on Saturday night, the Coast Guard said in a statement posted online. .
According to the survivor, the vessel carrying the group capsized on Sunday morning when it was hit by severe weather conditions 72.4 kilometers east of Pierce Inlet, on Florida’s Atlantic coast, approximately halfway between Miami and Cape Canaveral, but no one was wearing life jackets, the Coast Guard said.
The accident coincided with a warning for small boats posted in the region, with constant winds measured at 37 km per hour and waves 3 meters high, according to the Coast Guard.
A person found the man on top of the nearly submerged hull of the boat on Tuesday morning and rescued him before calling the Coast Guard, which sent rescue boats and aircraft to search for more casualties.
The survivor was taken to hospital to be treated for dehydration and heat stroke.
Throughout Tuesday, Coast Guard teams, helicopters and planes and a US Navy team searched an area of ​​more than 3,367 square kilometers, roughly the size of the state of Rhode Island, between Bimini and Fort Pierce Inlet, he said. the note.
Reference: CNN Brasil
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