By HECTOR FLORIN

Coast Guard rescuers this morning resumed their search for a group of missing Cuban migrants feared lost amid dangerous seas.

The search continued a day after three Cubans were pulled to safety from offshore in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea following a perilous journey aboard makeshift rafts.

At least five others were missing from the group, which had embarked last week on the voyage from the communist island 90 miles from Florida.

Officials dispatched a Coast Guard Falcon jet at sunrise to continue the search, Petty Officer Anastasia Burns said Friday.

U.S. Border Patrol officials could not immediately be reached for comment on the pending immigration status of survivors Milena González Martínez, Carlos Bringiere Hernández and William Villavicencio-Perez, who were pulled to safety on Thursday. The three remain under observation at Fort Lauderdale's Holy Cross Hospital.

They were suffering from dehydration but are listed in stable condition.

Under U.S. law, known as the ''wet foot-dry foot'' policy, Cuban immigrants who reach dry land are generally allowed to stay in the United States, while those who are intercepted at sea are returned to Cuba.