Two boats filled with humanitarian supplies travelling from Mexico to Cuba have been located days after contact with them was lost in the Caribbean, organisers say.
The boats were located by the Mexican Navy and the crews are safe, a spokesman for the Nuestra America Convoy said.
He did not explain why the two boats - the Friendship and Tiger Moth - had disappeared.
They are among several vessels that have sought to carry supplies to the island nation since the US imposed an oil blockade in January, prompting a chronic fuel shortage.
The Mexican Navy has not commented on how it located the boats, which departed Isla Mujeres, in Mexico’s easternmost state of Quintana Roo, on 20 March, and had been due to arrive at their destination on Monday or Tuesday.
Bermuda Triangle shit. That’s why they won’t say what really happened. /s
LOL. I went to sea camp in the Florida Keys, when I was a kid. It’s like Summer Camp but it all revolves around water activities. We were coming back from diving on the reef. It’s pretty tiring to spend all day out there so pretty much everyone was sleeping as we headed in. The counselor who was driving the boat, noticing that I was the only one awake, called me over to the console and pointed at the compass. I kid you not, the thing was spinning around. I looked at her and asked. “Are we going to disappear now?”
And we were never seen again.
Nice that you can still access the Lemmy API regardless. I didn’t know they had WiFi in the Bermuda hellscape.
Don’t tell Hegseth. He’ll think they’re party balloon fishermen and double strike them out of existence.
If those are the boats in the image, that’s really stretching the definition of what an “aid” ship can be.
Same as the Gaza flotillas. These are pleasure craft and sailboats mostly. The cargo they can transport is minuscule.
These flotillas aren’t about bringing anything more than a symbolic amount of aid. Their main goal is (social) media attention.
Is it surprising if they take a pleasure cruise shortcut after their donation drives? The Gaza flotilla ships were at least twice as big, involved more, and they also looked the part. These look like surfer dude sailboats on vacation.
Even symbolically these don’t seem to hold up to scrutiny. I am not a ship connoisseur, but still…
Who cares? Why is it a bad thing that some Mexicans with boats decided to join an aid flotilla? You do know what a flotilla is, right? It’s not about the size of one individual craft
Strawman much?
Oh? Then please explain the point of your criticism
Each of those boats can easily stick 5-10 MW of solar panels and ≈ .7 to 1 GJ worth of batteries into their holds for that short of a cruise. That brings two entire towns back online. It’s certainly not nothing.
If just these two boats are the only source that China has of getting solar panels and batteries to Cuba, they can get the entire country off of oil dependency in a year or two. I seriously doubt that is the case though.
And did they? I would have gone with refined uranium, that stuff is pretty valuable. I must have missed where they can carry the freight containers worth of solar panels you claim they are.
Sumud Flotilla used to have photos of their cargo on their website. It was so embarrassingly little, they took them down.
Of course you don’t have to believe the claims they were empty.
Your first link directs to a 404 and your second links to a Jerusalem Post article. I’m disinclined to believe either link is an authoritative primary source.
Yes, the first link is a 404 because they deleted the images, as I pointed out at the same time.
isla mujreres
I didn’t know that was a thing. I’m packing already!
