EVEN THOUGH FEWER THAN 100 mi. separate Florida's Atlantic Ocean beaches and Grand Bahama Island, when looking for something the size of a motor home in a featureless area larger than some states, disappointment and eyestrain are almost assured. And so it was when Wilson Riggan and his two crewmembers landed to refuel. A sport fishing boat en route from Florida was expected to put into the island that morning of May 16, 2019, but did not; the two men aboard had provided no word on their circum-stances or whereabouts. The U.S. Coast Guard launched an aerial search with an HC-144 Ocean Sentry crisscrossing the Straits of Florida. When those patterns failed to locate the boat, Riggan was asked to join the effort.
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