By DENISE MAYCOCK

Tribune Freeport Reporter

dmaycock@tribunemedia.net

FREEPORT - After almost 48 hours adrift with no food or water, nine persons, including three children, were rescued by the US Coast Guard off West Palm Beach on Monday.

A 26-ft centre console vessel with six adults and children ages, 3, 10, and 12, were spotted sometime after 6am by a USCG rescue helicopter.

The nationality of the boaters, who were brought to Freeport, were not known up to presstime.

According to reports, BASRA officials in Grand Bahama were contacted around 5.18am by a concerned resident in Nassau who reported that six persons were stranded off West End.

The caller said that the cell phone onboa ...

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