Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

More than a week af­ter leav­ing To­ba­go on a 29-foot fish­ing pirogue, the where­abouts of two Trinida­di­an sailors re­main un­known.

Alvin Mor­gan and Damien Re­ece of San­ta Flo­ra were de­liv­er­ing the ves­sel, Kam­pai, com­mis­sioned by a British na­tion­al, to Union Is­land in St Vin­cent and the Grenadines.

Ac­cord­ing to Cap­tain Val­lence Ramb­harat of the Hunters’ Search and Res­cue Team, the white and teal ves­sel de­part­ed from To­ba­go around 1.30 pm on March 2, with an es­ti­mat­ed ar­rival in Union Is­land be­tween 5 pm and 6 pm that day. Nei­ther the boat nor the crew reached their des­ti­na­tion.

Guardian Me­dia was told yes­ter­day that there were un­con­firmed sight­ings of the ves­sel near Car­ri­a­cou and Grena­da.

The ves­sel was con­struct­ed by a boat man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­ny in Trinidad for the UK res­i­dent to op­er­ate in the fish­ing in­dus­try in St Vin­cent.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands the boat was col­lect­ed on March 1, and one of the en­gines was not func­tion­ing cor­rect­ly when test­ed, but it was sub­se­quent­ly fixed.

A re­li­able source ex­plained, “The plan was for Alvin and Damien to pi­lot the boat to To­ba­go, get an­oth­er boat to ac­com­pa­ny them to Union Is­land, which would be their ride back. I was in­formed on Mon­day that the boat left To­ba­go, which I as­sume trav­el­ling to Union Is­land, where it would be hand­ed over and reg­is­tered in St Vin­cent.

“The guys who ar­rived in Union Is­land stayed overnight on March 2, but the boat nev­er showed up. All calls and mes­sages went unan­swered up to present.”

Cap­tion Ramb­harat said a re­port was made to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard, but to date, there has been no con­firmed in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing the where­abouts of the boat or the men.

One of May­nard’s rel­a­tives al­so con­firmed that they have not re­ceived any feed­back re­gard­ing their where­abouts.