Overview

• The U.S. Coast Guard and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have opened formal investigations into the causes and regulatory compliance failures of the collision.
• Two children from the Miami Youth Sailing Foundation remain in critical condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
• Divers, firefighters, Miami Beach police and Miami-Dade sheriff’s deputies executed a rapid multi-agency rescue after the sailboat sank in Biscayne Bay.
• Witnesses said a maintenance barge struck the small sailboat near Hibiscus Island around 11:15 a.m., tossing all aboard into the water despite life jackets.
• Cris Morena and Gustavo Yankelevich traveled to Miami to mourn their granddaughter and call for stronger oversight of youth sailing programs.