{"id":9456,"date":"2012-06-10T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T02:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=9456"},"modified":"2012-06-10T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T02:29:08","slug":"lehigh-acres-family-witnesses-rescue-of-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/06\/lehigh-acres-family-witnesses-rescue-of-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres Family <BR>Witnesses Rescue Of Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9457\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9457\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/refeeges1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9457\" title=\"refeeges1\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/refeeges1-300x127.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/refeeges1-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/refeeges1.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by the Bonacolta Family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Charlie and Erika Bonacolta, and their children were sailing back to Port Everglades after visiting Cozumel, Mexico, on Royal Caribbean&#8217;s Allure of the Seas when a small raft was spotted by the command staff bobbing in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were about 30 miles from Cuba,\u201d Mrs. Bonacolta said, when the captain announced that a raft had been seen. \u201cWe slowed down and the captain sent a lifeboat out to pick them up,\u201d she said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Bonacolta said that the group of five was brought aboard the Allure and given food and water. \u201cTheir raft was a small, rubber type raft,\u201d she said and added that the captain later said the five refugees had been at sea for three days.<\/p>\n<p>She said a U.S. Coast Guard plane came out first and then a USCG cutter stopped by the cruise ship and transferred the refugees over.<\/p>\n<p>The captain later spoke to the ship and told the passengers how extraordinary the rescue was, Mrs. Bonacolta said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been on a lot of cruises,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd this has never happened before. Even some of the Allure\u2019s staff was watching from the railing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie and Erika Bonacolta, and their children were sailing back to Port Everglades after visiting Cozumel, Mexico, on Royal Caribbean&#8217;s Allure of the Seas when a small raft was spotted&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}