A Royal Caribbean cruise turned into a rescue mission Saturday morning as it set sail to the Bahamas.
“The captain came on and said we have to stop, and it was one of those things that Mark said people just started running down the hallway to go check it out, and we kind of followed them,” cruise passenger Josh Levine said. “It was surreal experience.”
Levine and his partner, Mark Jackson, who are from Royal Palm Beach, were onboard the Liberty of the Seas cruise ship when it picked up 17 Cuban migrants that, the captain said, had been adrift for weeks.
“Honestly, my heart broke for them. To be out at sea for 15 or 16 days trying to escape your country for a better life, you have to be going through a lot,” Jackson said.
The two said the three-night cruise was supposed to stop at CocoCay in the Bahamas on …