Survivor clings to hope for five missing boat passengers

A sur­vivor of Sun­day’s boat­ing col­li­sion off Ch­aguara­mas is cling­ing to hope that five pas­sen­gers thrown in­to the sea will be found alive, as search and res­cue teams en­tered their third day of op­er­a­tions.

Re­count­ing the mo­ments be­fore the col­li­sion, the sur­vivor de­scribed how the oth­er ves­sel crashed in­to the cen­tre of their boat, leav­ing it par­tial­ly sub­merged and sev­er­al pas­sen­gers strug­gling to reach safe­ty.

Full coverageTwo Boats Collide Off Chaguaramas, Leaving Five People Missing14 reports

Follow

While ex­press­ing hope for the miss­ing pas­sen­gers, he is al­so call­ing for a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the col­li­sion.