{"id":68,"date":"2012-06-07T18:58:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T01:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trawlerschoolcharters.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2013-12-20T12:37:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T19:37:06","slug":"17-cuban-raft-discovered-adrift-off-elliot-key-fl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trawlerschoolcharters.com\/reviews\/17-cuban-raft-discovered-adrift-off-elliot-key-fl\/","title":{"rendered":"17 ft. Cuban Raft Discovered Adrift off Elliot Key, FL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dania Beach charter captain discovered a large well equipped 17&#8242; Cuban raft filled with provisions and equipped with a 4 cylinder Russian diesel engine off of Eliot Key on Wednesday, May16th, 2012. <\/p>\n<p>Captain Bob Hamilton, on board the Miami Mermaid, owner of Trawler School Charters, a boat handling Trawler school based in Dania Beach, FL,<div id=\"attachment_69\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trawlerschoolcharters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cuban_raft1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Cuban raft adrift off Elliot Key, found by Capt. Robert Hamilton.\" title=\"Cuban Raft\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trawlerschoolcharters.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cuban_raft1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trawlerschoolcharters.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cuban_raft1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/trawlerschoolcharters.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cuban_raft1.JPG 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-69\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cuban raft adrift off Elliot Key, found by Capt. Robert Hamilton.<\/p><\/div> was not sure whether anyone was still on board the obviously homemade craft when he first encountered it at a distance. Hamilton believes that at least 11 people used the raft to sail to Florida. According to Hamilton, there were 8 adult sized oars, 2 child sized oars and a baby basket on the craft. There was also canned food and 15 gallons of diesel fuel, 10 gallons of water, hypodermic needle&#8217;s and a IV bag on board. The location was reported to the USCG and pictures of the raft were e-mailed.   \u201cThe passenger on board obviously planned well for their voyage\u201d and either unloaded on a Fl Key Island or picked up by another boat for hopefully a safe arrival for all on board, said Hamilton.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_70\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trawlerschoolcharters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cuban_raft2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Capt. Bob Hamilton of Dania Beach, FL finds Cuban raft adrift off of Elliot Key, FL.\" title=\"Cuban Raft\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trawlerschoolcharters.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cuban_raft2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/trawlerschoolcharters.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cuban_raft2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trawlerschoolcharters.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cuban_raft2.JPG 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-70\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capt. Bob Hamilton of Dania Beach, FL finds Cuban raft adrift off of Elliot Key, FL.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dania Beach charter captain discovered a large well equipped 17&#8242; Cuban raft filled with provisions and equipped with a 4 cylinder Russian diesel engine off of Eliot Key on Wednesday, May16th, 2012. Captain Bob Hamilton, on board the Miami Mermaid, owner of Trawler School Charters, a boat handling Trawler school based in Dania Beach, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,27,28,9,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trawlerschoolcharters.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trawlerschoolcharters.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trawlerschoolcharters.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trawlerschoolcharters.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trawlerschoolcharters.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trawlerschoolcharters.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/trawlerschoolcharters.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trawlerschoolcharters.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trawlerschoolcharters.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trawlerschoolcharters.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}