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A luxury boat with dozens of influencers began to put on water and eventually “tilted over”, forced the Coast Guard to evacuate the ship near Miami Beach in Florida.
According to The Southeastern Division of the Coast GuardA coastguard crew, as well as a ship from other local agencies, responded to a call around 5pm on Saturday, May 3, reporting that a 63-foot yacht took on water near Monument Island.
Local Fox Affiliate Station WSVN Reported that units from other agencies, including Miami Beach Police Marine Patrol, also responded to the sinking yacht.
Both the police and a ship owned by a passerby helped get 32 people to beach without injuries, the outlet reported.
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A number of passengers who were on the ship split video films on Social media of the yacht starts to put on water. Several of the passengers could be seen to try to save expensive items on board, such as laptops, as a person joked: “Women and children first!”
“We were just on the boat and we saw a bunch of police officers, police boats, and there was another yacht that was flipped completely vertically in the water,” the witness Rachael Miller told us CBS News Miami.
“It was vertical,” Miller added. “It was straight up in the water. It definitely didn’t look ordinary and it’s just a lot about it.”
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Another witness, Bruce Maresh, told Wsvn that he could not believe what he saw when the ship tipped over.
“Something in the distance, it appeared at an angle, and the closer we get, you can say it was a big boat,” Maresh said.
WSVN reported that the 32 saved passengers were transported to Miami Beach Marina.
According to sending calls obtained by CBS News Miami, the yacht was a “Lamborghini ship”, but it is currently unclear who owns the boat or what made it take water.
The Coast Guard said that commercial rescue is working to recycle the ship and noted that it will not be a danger to other vessels near Miami Beach.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is currently investigating the incident, reported WSVN.