Lucky Nica clings to go-fast boat in Caribbean

AP report on http://news.yahoo.com/ - "A go-fast boat reportedly carrying a crew of four capsized on a Caribbean route used by drug traffickers and one survivor was found clinging to the boat's bow, which was jutting out of the water, U.S. authorities said Monday.

"The survivor, who identified himself as a Nicaraguan, was taken aboard a merchant ship and has been uncooperative.

"The Coast Guard would not send divers to inspect what was on board and would sink the boat because it poses a hazard to other vessels.

"Crews of go-fasts, the equivalent of the rumrunners of the Prohibition era, are equipped with global positioning systems, satellite telephones and often use custom-made 800-horsepower fiberglass boats that can do 50 mph. The cocaine is generally loaded on board on Colombia's coast, offloaded in Central America or Mexico and then taken on land across the U.S. border."

The Nica said they were fishing.