An Auburn family vacationing on a Royal Caribbean cruise witnessed a miracle on the sea as six missing fishermen and their dog were rescued by the cruise ship. Cruiser Mary Isbell of Auburn contacted WRBL and sent us the video she took from her room as the rescue was underway. You can watch it below.
“This is a first for us. The rescue boat, and the surveillance plane and then way off into the distance os a speck – that’s the dingy. We were off the coast of Cancun during the rescue,” Auburn’s Mary Isbell tells WRBL.
According to Cruise Hive the small fishing vessel Aris experienced an engine failure over the weekend, with six people and a dog reported onboard. Communication with the vessel was initially lost on Sunday, January 14, 20 miles from Cape Catoche, the northernmost tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. According to Cambio 22, local officials and community members immediately launched search efforts …