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| Missing Caribbean yacht couple found, daughter confirms | |
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| A couple who were reported missing on a yacht in the Caribbean on Saturday have been found. | A couple who were reported missing on a yacht in the Caribbean on Saturday have been found. |
| Arthur Alleyne and Sharon Went-Alleyne, who is from Telford, Shropshire, were sailing between St Lucia and Barbados when all contact was lost. | |
| Air and sea searches were looking for the pair, but daughter Tao Alleyene, from Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, confirmed they have been found. | |
| She had feared the 47ft (14m) yacht called Serenity may have lost power. | |
| The Barbados coastguard confirmed they carried out a search for the couple. | |
| Ms Alleyne said she had last spoken to her mother on Friday. The last contact was with the boat was on Saturday. | |
| She said her father, 63, known as Captain Sam, was an experienced sailor and boat captain who was brought up in the Caribbean. | |
| In a Facebook post, Ms Alleyne said although the last contact with the boat was at 2pm local time on Saturday, a "strange voicemail" came in to one of the dock's phones on Sunday. | |
| "In that voicemail, there was the sound of wind blowing and water lapping, and faintly the voices of the two mentioned but their words could not be made out. We don't know if they were in distress at that time," she wrote. |