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On February 8, helicopter pilots patrolling over the sea saw two men and a woman waving a homemade flag on a miniature island in the Anguilla Islands, located between the Florida Low Islands (a chain of coral islands in the southeastern United States) and Cuba.
As United States Coast Guard Lt. Riley Beecher told the BBC in an interview, he had flown on a regular patrol mission on Monday, February 8, when he saw something strange from the air. Descending a little lower, Mr. Beecher saw three people on the island who were clearly crying out for help.
The crew did not have the opportunity to evacuate these people immediately, but left them with water, food and radio.
“Unfortunately, there was no one among us who spoke Spanish. Somehow I spoke to them and realized that they are from Cuba and they need medical help. They explained that they have been on the island for 33 days,” said Beecher.
The rescued people later claimed they had been found on the island after their boat sank in a stormy sea. On the island, they ate almost exclusively coconuts.
“At first glance, no one seems to be growing up on this island,” said another crew member, Lt. Justin Dougherty. – But on closer inspection, you can see bushes and even trees. So they still had something like that. “
A little later, news appeared in the US press that Cubans on the island also ate rats and the traditional Bahamian delicacy: sea snails (snails).
The next morning, three robinsons were evacuated. They were taken for inspection to a Florida medical center and later turned over to immigration and customs officials.
It is not yet clear whether this trio attempted to enter the US or simply got lost at sea. The United States Coast Guard claimed that they were only trying to save these people. In October of last year, a slightly larger group of Cuban citizens were also stranded on an island near the Anguilla Islands. However, he had to spend less time on an uninhabited island – 10 days.
“It’s not every day you see three people who have spent 33 days on an uninhabited island,” Beecher said. “Developing relief on their faces when you give them hope is a wonderful thing,” he said.
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