Persons reportedly injured, missing from boating accident in West End
BVI News understands that a boating accident has happened in or near West End on Tortola.
Details are still unclear but our news centre understands that an unspecified number of persons sustained injuries. The extent of those injuries are not known at this time.
Ambulances, police vehicles, and representatives from the Virgin Islands Search and Rescue team were deployed to the West End Dock to receive the injured.
Meanwhile, at least one minor is said to have be aboard the vessel.
Sources part of the territory’s emergency services organisations told our news centre that authorities have also launched a search for boat passengers who have, reportedly, gone missing.
BVI News will provide more information as it becomes available.
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How can you ‘flip’ a boat on the calmest possible ocean?
Sorry to hear, praying for the victims and their families.
Now Is not the time to ask that question. Someone is missing
Intoxicated? hope they find whoever is missing
i saw awesome today and he was cruiseing with the family today was not a day for speeding. something had to brake of the sturn of that boat that shit sink to FASTTTTTTTT….. something not adding up
So sorry for the families suffering but who ever was driving the boat needs to go to jail. Crashing a boat at night when its calm is due to recklessness. No lifejackets on a minor. No lifejackets on the non swimmers. Going too fast at night. Had the driver been drinking?
If they have a commercial captains license it needs revoking.
This is a tragic AVOIDABLE accident and the responsible parties need to be made to deal with the consequences of their actions.
Here we go again
The steering broke
It seems as though people here don’t practice safety when they are out on the water. IE, wearing safety vest.
at sea requires boat/yacht drivers to SLOW DOWN and navigate WITH CAUTION.
Reduced visibility at sea occurs in darkness, low light, rain storms, fog, mist, smoke or any combination of the above.
same thing i saying he had his own family with him. their wasnt going fast. something happen some other boat maybe cross their part or something hit it.
was the US coast guard there? if they had hear the boat had drugs they would have been there before the accident even happen. how come they did not respond swiftly to render assistance?
Why didn’t the US Coast Guard get called in to assist??? That is what they are specifically trained for! Where were the choppers last night? Where are they today? If that was my daughter missing I wouldn’t care who came into help. US Coast Guard is NOT drug enforcement. THEY ARE SEARCH N RESCUE FOR CHRIST SAKES!
Who has jurisdiction to call in the coast guard?
you got a problem / try BVI coast guard , we hollering nout ( independence , then we need to have our own first , if thethe us coast guard were in the area they would od assisted, go back in you cave
I forget to mention the choppers too
Because no ask them to assist. That’s why!
Not true! If it starts in US water then they absolutely get involve. This happened in the BVI waters alone. Why didn’t the BVI request help from the US Coast Guard. That’s the real question!
some sort of distress signal were out
all other boats that had radio on hear it. I think US coast guard VHF radio is on 24/7 They definitely heard it.
so the last bust off Virgin Gorda was in US waters????
By running into something.
because it’s not drug runners
YEAH YOU ARE RIGHT , ITS THE US COAST GUARD FAULT , THEY SHOULD OF BEEN THERE TO CATCH THE PEOPLE WHEN THE BOAT FLIPPED, KEEP SINGING / HOW ABOUT THE BARGES ??
If the steering broke and he was driving sensibly all he would have to do is just stop the boat.
Everybody is a critic now. Get the facts and then comment. Stop speculating. Someone died in this tragedy and everyone casting blame now. Its not going to change anything. My condolences to the grieving family and relatives and may the injured recover quickly.
Shut Up!
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Shut up