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To: Lee Heggy123

52 people on a 20' boat???


9 posted on 06/01/2006 11:51:23 AM PDT by FreeInWV
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To: FreeInWV

Thats what the article stated but of course it could be wrong. The fact that there were only 11 on board and that they were all young paints a pretty ugly picture in my mind as to what happened to the rest even if there wasn't 41 more besides them. I can't tell how many times when I was in the Coast Guard other fellas that served down in southern waters would tell me about finding people in a small craft that had nothing more than a gas station map and a happy meal, totally out of site of land and about to be carried away on the Gulf Stream to mid Atlantic. Some folks think that sailing or driving a boat to some place like Bermuda is a simple thing with no dangers but they don't call it the Triangle for nothing.


10 posted on 06/01/2006 12:04:03 PM PDT by Leg Olam ("There is no Hell. There is only France." F. Zappa)
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To: FreeInWV
That happens almost everyday on this side of the Atlantic. Illegal Dominicans and Chinese plus Cuban refugees trying to reach Puerto Rico in makeshift boats called yolas, across the dangerous mona passage. here's a pic of one:


11 posted on 06/01/2006 12:17:50 PM PDT by cll (Carthage must be destroyed)
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