Fifteen bodies were recovered Wednesday after an overloaded sailboat carrying Haitian migrants plowe

Описание: (29 Jul 2009) HEADLINE: Coast Guard suspends search in Haiti shipwreck
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CAPTION: Fifteen bodies were recovered Wednesday after an overloaded sailboat carrying Haitian migrants plowed into coral reefs that ring the Turks and Caicos islands. The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search after a 52-hour operation. (July 29)
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SHIPWRECKED HAITIAN MIGRANTS REMAIN IN DETENTION AFTER THEIR BADLY OVERLOADED SHIP BROKE APART ON THE TREACHEROUS CORAL REEFS THAT RING THE TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS

OFFICIALS SAY THE SURVIVORS ARE DOING BETTER AFTER RECEIVING MEDICAL ATTENTION AND FOOD -- SOME OF IT DONATED BY THE LOCAL HAITIAN COMMUNITY, AND, OFFICIALS SAY, THEY ARE OVERCOMING THE TERROR OF THE DEADLY SHIPWRECK

//SOT DONALD METELLUS, VOLUNTEER HAITIAN CONSUL
"They're OK. They're just kind of sorry of spending their money and risking their life. They could have been dead. Some of them even say, when they go back to Haiti, they're going to change their life. They're going to give their life to Jesus because they could have been dead by now. "

SOT WINTON STANDUP - TONY WINTON, AP CORRESPONDENT
"MEANWHILE THE SEARCH CONTINUED BY SEA AND AIR FOR DOZENS OF HAITIANS STILL MISSING. HELICOPTERS SCANNED A PATCH OF OCEAN WEST OF THE SHIPWRECK, GUIDED BY COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF WIND AND CURRENTS - BUT WITHOUT RESULTS"

A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL ASKED THE UNITED KINGDOM TO A BETTER JOB PATROLLING THE TINY NATION'S COAST

//SOT Royal Robinson, Deputy Premiere, Turks and Caicos
"They don't care in what condition they come in. They come and in and say, 'I want to come to the Turks and Caicos islands,' because they feel here's a brighter life at the end of the tunnel, and they come, like flies to a magnet."

A FEW SURVIVORS HAVE ALREADY BEEN SENT HOME - ITS EXPECTED THE REMAINDER WILL BE FLOWN TO HAITI WITHIN DAYS.

TONY WINTON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, PROVEDENCIALES, TURKS AND CAICOS

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