Twenty Dominicans who were lost at sea for 18 days were brought back to the DR from the Turks & Caicos Islands having ended up there after trying to reach Puerto Rico on a boat. The bodies of two men also were brought home. The group had left the municipality of Gaspar Hernandez on 7 October 2005. The victims were identified as Martin Nunez and Jesus Jimenez who lived in Los Naranjos, Nagua. One of the survivors said they had drowned trying to catch something to eat. The survivors arrived on two Swiss Sport flights from Turks and Caicos. Their names are Juan Toribio, Silvio Mota, Arcibiades Garcia, Quilvio Moreta, Joel Jimenez, Jeuri Manuel Perez, Wendy Garcia, Jose Figueroa, William Grend, Carmen Delia Nunez, Jennifer and Brigida de la Cruz, William Norberto, Francisca Garcia Hernandez, Pedro Jimenez, Roman Acosta, Joel Perez Mercedes, Andery Bencosme, Jose Lopez Nolasco, and Henry de la Cruz. The latter was arrested upon arrival.