Three castaways were recovered on July 31 by the volunteer teams of the National Society for Rescue at Sea (SNSM) of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy.
They were drifting in the middle of the night on an icehouse not far from the island of Tintamarre after the sinking of their boat.
They had gone fishing when suddenly the boat filled with water, reports the SNSM station in Saint-Martin. On Friday July 31, at 20:40 p.m. a call reached the gendarmerie. At the end of the line, one of the three castaways rescued from the waters by the volunteer teams of the National Society for Rescue at Sea (SNSM) of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy.
"He was panicked and barely had time to say that he was on board a sinking motor boat" near Tintamarre "with 2 other people on board, when the communication was interrupted" reports the SNSM station in Saint-Martin. At the request of the Regional Operational Surveillance and Rescue Center of the Antilles-Guyana, volunteer teams from the SNSM stations of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy are sent to the area. The search began around 22 p.m. but the position of the sinking boat was not known. The stars of the SNSM then crisscross the area using their searchlights and their thermal binoculars to detect the presence of the castaways. “At 22:43 pm, the crew of SNS 269 from Saint-Barthélemy located three people in the water. They are hung from a cooler and all wear life jackets. They are quickly hoisted aboard the boat and immediately examined ”before being deposited safe and sound in Marigot, reports the SNSM Station in Saint-Martin. "They did not make a call to the VHF, did not have time to use hazard lights but only to put on their life jackets and make this phone call at the last minute to" 17 " before ending up in the water without a telephone connection.
They had succeeded in recovering one of the 2 ice boxes on board and used it as a flotation support… They had swam in the direction of Tintamarre for 1 hour and 45 minutes when the SNSM of Saint-Barthélemy recovered them in the water ” . Now aware of the risks involved, "they will never set out again at sea without means of alerting the emergency services, without a waterproof bag for telephones and distress signals, or without lights on their life jackets" specifies the rescuers at sea.
(www.journal-lepelican.com)
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