Only one woman and two men were rescued of a group of 56 persons that left Saturday at dawn from an area near Miches to Puerto Rico. The Navy rescued the three near Sabana de la Mar on the East Coast. Thirty-year old Maria Teresa de los Santos told reporters from her hospital bed in Miches that the boat hit a reef when the trip started, but the captain decided to continue the trip. The boat later capsized. She said they were spotted by a fishermen’s boat that would have given the first alert. She said the three that survived, herself included, did so because they knew how to swim. "I don’t know if there is anyone else alive," she told the press. She said they paid RD$4,000 to RD$5,000 for the trip.
