Puerto Rico: Catamaran sinks on passage from the DR to the BVIs
A 36-foot catamaran with 2 people on board sank Friday night ten miles north of Puerto Rico.
Published 5 years ago
Coastguard air and surface crews plus the crew of a passenger ferry all came to the aid of two sailors whose catamaran was taking on water 10 nautical miles north of Manati, Puerto Rico.
- A Coast Guard Station San Juan small boat crew rescue two people after it was reported the sailing vessel Blue Cocktail was taking on water 10 miles north of Manati, Puerto Rico, Dec. 6, 2019. (U.S. Coast Guard video)
The 36-foot catamaran “Blue Cocktail” was on passage from the Dominican Republic to the British Virgin Islands when on Friday 6 December it started to take on water and sink. San Juan Coastguard received a Mayday call at 7.24pm on the Friday via VHF Ch. 16 and promptly issued an Urgent Marine Information Broadcast UMIB to alert marine traffic in the area. The ocean ferry Kydon was diverted to the area of the distress and helped the Coastguard locate the partly submerged catamaran.
A French man and US woman were on board and while the man stayed on the boat to try to control the flooding, the woman jumped into the yacht’s dinghy. The Coastguard vessel was guided to the crew’s location by a Coastguard aircraft and helicopter, also on the scene.
Read the full news item at Coast Guard News.
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