Sunday morning at the site of the Aruba Hi-Winds at Fisherman's Huts, corporal Iwan Poel, in charge of the Korps Mariniers security-team-at-sea for this watersport event, was sitting on top of the Race Director's tower, looking out at sea, long before the organizers and participants were arriving. Scanning the sea, he spotted a small vessel going out to the open waters of the Palm Beach bay. He took his binoculars and was amazed to sea a green sea kayak, apparently without any occupant, drifting out at sea. Soon, it was no more than a little dot on the horizon. Poel called some of his man, set out one of the rescue boats and headed for the unidentified drifting object. When they arrived at the kayak, they were even more amazed to find a man lying in the kayak, sound asleep, a glass containing his drink clutched in his hand. They woke up the man and towed the kayak back to the beach. There they provided the man, a Colombian residing in Aruba, with some refreshing drinking water and gave him a little speech about drinking combined with managing a vessel, before the man got on his way back to were he set out from. By doing so, the attention of the representative of the Royal Dutch Marines spared Aruba another case of a missing person . . .
Sounds as if the Royal Dutch Marines are doing a fantastic job of looking for Natalee...NOT!