Posted on 02/23/2024 8:53:28 PM PST by Red Badger
An American couple has gone missing in the Caribbean after three escaped prisoners allegedly used their yacht to island hop before getting recaptured by authorities, according to investigators.
Ralph Hendry and his wife Kathy Brandel disappeared from their yacht, Simplicity, which was docked in the waters of the southern Caribbean nation of Grenada, Hendry's sister, Suellen Desmarais, told ABC News.
Police have not confirmed the identity and nationality of the couple but are investigating the incident.
Hendry and Brandel were last seen alive by their boating neighbor at the dock on Sunday afternoon, according to Desmarais. The neighbor said he saw the couple entering a restaurant, Desmarais said.
"That man went to bed that night and he looked over and Simplicity was there when he went to bed," but when the neighbor "got up at 6:30 a.m. on Monday morning, Simplicity was gone," she told ABC News.
Desmarais said the couple had been in Grenada for about two weeks, and their yacht left the island a week earlier than planned.
The Royal Grenada Police Force said the yacht allegedly became the target of three alleged criminals, Ron Mitchell, Trevon Robertson and Abita Stanislaus, all from St. Andrew, Grenada, who escaped from a police station after they were arrested on Sunday.
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Ralph Hendry and Kathy Brandel's yacht, Simplicity.
Courtesy Suellen Desmarais
They are probably fish food. Very unfortunate our media is devoted to showing ideal images of some places and not the truth.
piracy, esp. of yachts being sailed by naive American couples, is not at all an uncommon occurrence in the Caribbean ...
The seaweed is always greener
In somebody else’s lake
You dream about going up there
But that is a big mistake
Just look at the world around you
Right here on the ocean floor
Such wonderful things surround you
What more are you looking for
Under the sea
Under the sea
Darling it’s better
Down where it’s wetter
Take it from me
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we’re devotin’
Full time to floatin’
Under the sea
Down here all the fish is happy
As off through the waves they roll
The fish on the land ain’t happy
They sad ’cause they in the bowl
But fish in the bowl is lucky
They in for a worser fate
One day when the boss get hungry
Guess who’s goin’ be on the plate
Oh no!
Under the sea
Under the sea
Nobody beat us
Fry us and eat us
In fricassee
We what the land folks love to cook
Under the sea we off the hook
We got no troubles
Life is the bubbles
Under the sea
Under the sea
Since life is sweet here
We got to be here
Naturally
Even the sturgeon and the ray
They get the urge and start to play
We got the spirit
You got to hear it
Under the sea
The newt play the flute
The carp play the harp
The plaice pay the bass
And they soundin’ sharp
The bass play the brass
The chub play the tub
The fluke is the duke of soul
The ray he can play
The lings on the strings
The trout rockin’ out
The blackfish she sings
The smelt and the sprat
You know where it’s at
And oh that blow-fish blow
Under the sea
Under the sea
When the sardine
Begin the beguine
It’s music to me
What do they got a lot of sand
We got a hot crustacean band
Each little clam here know how to jam here
Under the sea
Each little slug here cuttin’ a rug here
Under the sea
Each little snail here know how to wail here
That’s why it’s hotter under the water
Yeah we in luck here
Down in the muck here
Under the sea
So large catamarans are considered yachts?
Apparently so.........................
A yacht (/jɒt/) is a sailing or power vessel used for pleasure, cruising, or racing. There is no standard definition, though the term generally applies to vessels with a cabin intended for overnight use.
You wrecked my boat, you goons.
Maybe that was a good thing.
Travis McGee ping. He’s an expert in this topic
Travis McGee would have used those wastes of skin for target practice.
*the target of three alleged criminals, all from St. Andrew, Grenada, who escaped from a police station after they were arrested on Sunday.*
Would POTUS Trump accept this sitting down?
Yep, reminds me of dirt bags that stole a Yacht in Newport CA. Several years ago. They tied Anchors to the owners feet and tossed them overboard.
I remember that well. As I recall, one of the perps was a former child actor.
Likely a sad ending for the couple, but foolish of them to wander around like that.
They join dozens of other pleasure boat owners who were similarly murdered all over the world.
Its just another hull design.
After graduation a kid I knew in school took off with his father to cruise down the FL gulf coast and out to the islands. They picked up a couple of women in Appalachicola FL (FL panhandle), headed out, and were never heard from again. No debris, nothing was ever found.
The cops were pretty sure the women were working with drug smugglers to hijack boats. This was early 70s so no satellite tracking, GPS, etc.
Piracy is still a ‘thing’.................
Matt doesn’t get on FR much anymore.
Too many scabs and foreign-flag trolls.
Just blame it on THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE nonsense. So many lost back then were believed to have actually ran into massive hurricanes.
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