Basra Rescue Tonight!

[nancy mcdaniel]

Listening to the VHF radio tonight... man overboard...heard. BASRA Guana Cay, Troy Albury of Dive Guana responds, and coordinates in minutes with Hope Town BASRA and Marsh Harbour BASRA. Boat left Guana Cay to Marsh Harbour and it is dark now. After much work, they find the person. All is well. We are very lucky to have these people to help out.

[Danali Star]

I agree!!!!!!!!!!!!! BASRA rocks! and Troy seems to always be on the spot for a rescue! I haven't heard about this so thanks for posting!!

[YMKG]

I was sitting at Harbours Edge around 8pm and saw a small Boston Whaler take off at full speed across the harbour to an area back by Hopetown Hideaways. I thought to myself, what a jerk for opening up the throttle in the harbour. Then, about a minute later, a different boat tore out of the creek at full speed with red light flashing headed out to the Sea of Abaco. The first boat must have been some of the guys going from HTFR across the harbour to get into one of their rescue boats.


Glad to hear all ended well. It was cool to watch them in action.

[nancy mcdaniel]

Same at Fishers Bay. Troy peeled out of the bay and somebody got on the VHF and gave him some not nice words about it. Thank goodness, another local came on and told the person it was an emergency. Common sense would tell you that something was amiss if a boat is full throttle from the dock in the dark! Troy from Guana Rescue (and Dive Guana) is always there - he transported Shannon Roberts the night she was so sick. Again, we are so lucky to have these folks around to help us in terrifying emergencies.

[rhkaplan]

Once again Troy is unbelievable!!

[dancin' bare 3]

the man over board was saved by one of the hopetown basra boats.
he had fallen out of the 26' outboard CC about 2/3 of the way to sugarloaf
key from guana, unnoticed at dusk. the search covered a huge area
and it was dark, rough and windy. all search boats were at slow speed, depending
on their ears more than their eyes. the survivor hailed the rescue boat
otherwise he would have washed up near leisure lee, one way or another.
he was very, very lucky.