Jun 16, 2008 4:04 pm US/Eastern
Search Underway For 3 Missing Boaters Off Jamaica
MIAMI (CBS4) ―
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A man clings to the hull of a speedboat in the Caribbean 235 miles south of Jamaica. This picture snapped by a US Customs and Border Protection photographer engaged in a search for a suspicious craft. Three people who were also aboard the boat are missing.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol/CBS
It's a race against the clock for search and rescue coordinators with the Coast Guard's Seventh District Command Center in Miami as they coordinate resources off the southern coast of Jamaica in their efforts to find three survivors of a capsized boat.
Sunday, a Texas based U.S. Customs and Border Protection plane on a routine patrol picked up a possible 'target of interest' on their long range domed radar system. They alerted a tracking station in Jacksonville which sent out a crew to investigate.
The Long Range Tracking crew found that the 'target of interest' was a capsized go-fast boat with a man clinging to it's hull about 235 miles south of Jamaica.
The aircrew contacted the Coast Guard which requested that the closest merchant vessel recover the man. Once aboard the ship, he told said three other people from the go-fast boat were still unaccounted for.
The Coast Guard immediately launched an air and sea search for the 3 missing individuals. The 270-foot Coast Guard cutter Tahoma was diverted to the area to assist in the search being conducted by the crews of a C-130 Hercules fixed-wing aircraft from Air Station Clearwater and a Long Ranger Tracking plane from Jacksonville.
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