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Missing Caribbean yacht couple found, daughter confirms | 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. | Arthur Alleyne and Sharon Went-Alleyne, who is from Telford, Shropshire, were sailing between St Lucia and Barbados when all contact was lost. |
An air and sea search was launched, but daughter Tao Alleyene, from Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, confirmed she has now spoken to her father. | |
"He said they had been drifting, but they are both fine," she said. | |
She had feared the 47ft (14m) yacht called Serenity may have lost power in a storm. | |
The Barbados coastguard confirmed they carried out a search for the couple. | The Barbados coastguard confirmed they carried out a search for the couple. |
Miss Alleyne described the moment her anxious wait for news was finally over after a traumatic weekend. | |
She said: "I got a really frantic phone call from a family friend who said she had just spoken to my Dad. | |
"So I called his number and he answered, which is the first time we have had any contact since Saturday. | |
"Unfortunately we lost signal, but he told me that both my mother and he were fine. That they were a bit dehydrated and hungry. | |
"They had been drifting, but I don't know if they managed to get in by themselves or somebody spotted them and managed to pull them in. | |
"But they're both fine and healthy. They said to make sure everybody know they're no longer lost. | |
"We're so so happy that they have been found. | |
"You always think the worse automatically, but my Dad has been a captain for coming up to 40 years. He knows the sea. | |
"We were always hoping that if anyone could keep them safe and get them through my Dad would." |