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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.
Air and sea searches were looking for the pair, but daughter Tao Alleyene, from Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, confirmed they have been found. An air and sea search was launched, but daughter Tao Alleyene, from Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, confirmed she has now spoken to her father.
She had feared the 47ft (14m) yacht called Serenity may have lost power. "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.
Ms Alleyne said she had last spoken to her mother on Friday. The last contact was with the boat was on Saturday. Miss Alleyne described the moment her anxious wait for news was finally over after a traumatic weekend.
She said her father, 63, known as Captain Sam, was an experienced sailor and boat captain who was brought up in the Caribbean. She said: "I got a really frantic phone call from a family friend who said she had just spoken to my Dad.
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. "So I called his number and he answered, which is the first time we have had any contact since Saturday.
"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. "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."