Panic in the waves.

From: Coast Guard Magazine | Date: February 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

As the crew of the patrolling Falcon jet from Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, looked down at the narrow vessel slowly making its way toward the Puerto Rican coast, the yola's passengers waved cheerfully at the Coast Guardsmen tracking their voyage.

The overcrowded vessel teetered from side to side in the gray, forbidding seas as it clumsily approached the coast, its second attempt in reaching Puerto Rico the morning of Dec. 3. The now nervous passengers could see the rocky beaches, thinking they were minutes from setting foot on land.

Although more than 80 of the ...

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