{"id":15060,"date":"2011-11-16T09:11:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T14:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15060"},"modified":"2011-11-16T09:34:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T14:34:06","slug":"three-days-rowing-after-yacht-sinks-in-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/three-days-rowing-after-yacht-sinks-in-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Three Days Rowing After Yacht Sinks in Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15069\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15069\" title=\"dinghy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dinghy-250x168.jpg\" alt=\"dinghy\" width=\"250\" height=\"168\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Joe Cavaretta, Sun Sentinel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mike Ayres, 46, from Detroit and Steffon Moore, 19, a hired deckhand from Miami Gardens, were making a trip to Bimini from Islamorada in the Florida Keys to to pick up a dive tank compressor.<\/p>\n<p>About five hours into the 85-mile trip their 41-foot yacht Lady Rosalee, capsized and sank in heavy seas 12 miles south of Gun Cay in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>The yacht apparently hit an unidentified object and sank, leaving the pair without a radio or any other means of communication or navigation.<\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard was never notified of the sinking, so no search was launched.<\/p>\n<p>Rowing for three days, navigating at night by the stars, Ayres was able to overcome the winds and waves to safely navigate a dinghy westward and to shore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two boaters rowed for three days before landing in Boca Raton, Florida, after their yacht sunk near Gun Cay in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[66,107],"class_list":["post-15060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-boating","tag-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}