Boat crash survivor recalls seeing a ‘child’ driving other vessel

One of the sur­vivors of last week­end’s dead­ly boat­ing col­li­sion off the Ch­aguara­mas coast says he re­calls see­ing a child op­er­at­ing the ves­sel that crashed in­to the one he was in, lead­ing to the death of one of six peo­ple who went miss­ing at sea.

Speak­ing with the me­dia at the Chaqua­ca­bana Re­sort in Ch­aguara­mas yes­ter­day, Ma­lik Rud­der said he was among a group of five, head­ing to a Down the Is­lands par­ty when tragedy struck.

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Po­lice re­port­ed that around 6.30 pm on Sun­day, a 44-year-old man from Fed­er­a­tion Park was cap­tain­ing a ves­sel named BAM­BA­LEO, a 28-foot Bowen Plea­sure Craft east near Can­nings Point, when there was a col­li­sion with a 29-foot Chantelle named BEL­BA­GAI, which was head­ing west, cap­tained by a 35-year-old Point Cumana man.