U.S. Coast Guard photo from 2014
by Petty Officer 3rd Class Connie Terrell
Key Takeaways:
Five people, including a small child, survived a Cessna 172 ditching off Nassau after the pilot reported engine problems.
The group deployed a life raft and floated for three hours before being located by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter and transported to Nassau by a Royal Bahamian Defence Force boat.
Favorable weather conditions were credited with aiding the survivors' ability to ditch successfully, deploy their life raft, and be rescued.
Five survivors were plucked from the waters off Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, late last night after ditching in a Cessna 172 and clambering into a life raft as the sun was going down.
The group floated in the water for three hours about nine miles southeast of Nassau before finally being located at 10:20 p.m. local time by a U.S. Coast Guard MH-60 helicopter.
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