Cuban Rafters (1964-1979)
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Crude raft made of tree trunks, 3 innertubes,
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. (
Reader's Digest
, May 1972, 104)
A dead Cuban in his 20s was
found on this raft crafted of
canvas and Soviet innertubes.
Sept. 28, 1979.