Coast Guard Rescues 406 Migrants on Boat

More than 400 Haitians and Dominicans packed shoulder-to-shoulder on a wooden boat had to be persuaded by Coast Guard crews to abandon ship after the boat ran aground on a sandbar about a mile from Key Biscayne, Fla. All 406 of the passengers eventually climbed voluntarily aboard Coast Guard cutters, said Petty Officer Scott Carr. He said the group may have been at sea on the 60-foot vessel for as long as five days. The boat ran aground about 1 1/2 miles from the Cape Florida Lighthouse and near Stiltsville, a cluster of homes built on pilings in Biscayne Bay.