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.