U.S. Customs and Border Protection crews discovered a man clinging to a capsized go-fast boat Sunday during a counter-drug patrol hundreds of miles south of Jamaica. There are no comments up to now.
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The Coast Guard's Seventh District Command Center in Miami is heading up a search for three others reported missing from the boat. In a news release, a Customs and Border Protection spokesperson says while conducting law enforcement patrols Sunday, a CBP aircraft, stationed in Corpus Christi, Texas, detected a target of interest with it's radar system and directed a second crew, stationed in Jacksonville, Fla., to investigate. The crew located the target and observed a man clinging to the hull of a capsized go-fast vessel 235-miles south of Jamaica. Once aboard the a rescue boat, the man reported three other people from the go-fast were 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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