Cuban Rafters (1964-1979)

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     Crude raft made of tree trunks, 3 inner tubes, and
     branches was found drifting empty 10 miles
south
     of Key West, Sept. 18, 1969.
    Ranger Johnny Johnson gathers bones of Cuban castaway
    at John Pennekamp State Park, Florida,
Jan. 4, 1970.


 
 
Homemade wooden raft's inner tubes stamped "Made in Roumania" found drifting 300 yards from discovered bones.

 
 
     Antonio Vigo Cancio, his wife Venerada, and their family fled Cuba on Aug.
     17, 1971. These Afro Cubans were erroneously portrayed as white. (
Reader's
     Digest
, May 1972, 104)
     A dead Cuban in his 20s was found on
     this raft crafted of
canvas and Soviet
     inner tubes.
Sept. 28, 1979.