Thursday, September 27, 2007

From the busy day in the Florida Straits department:

Saturday was a busy day in the waters between the Florida Keys and Cuba. Two cruise ships picked up Cuban migrants in unsafe boats.

Carnival Valor picked up 10 Cuban migrants about 40 miles southwest of Key West. They were later transferred to the Coast Guard cutter Valiant.

There is video on You Tube of the migrants in their boat and of them transferring to the cutter Valiant.

Royal Caribbean's Liberty of the Seas picked up two Cuban migrants about 30 miles east of Key Largo, and they were later transferred to the Coast Guard cutter Confidence.

The Coast Guard repatriated all of them to Cuba on Wednesday.

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