It has been a busy week in South Florida. And, in true Florida fashion, last weekend was party time.
The Air and Sea Show was taking place off Ft. Lauderdale, attracting huge crowds. And the Maimi Formula One Grand Prix scorched up the streets of Miami Gardens, also drawing vast crowds.
So, it is no wonder that 32 revelers, most of them young women, some in evening dresses and some in bikinis, found their way aboard a Lamborghini 63 belonging, the police surmise, to a successful internet influencer. The owner’s identity has not been released.
What the party goes didn’t expect was to find the boat they were on was starting to sink in the waters off Monument Island. The boat sank slowly by the stern so after the SOS was issued by the crew, the coast Guard was able to respond quickly.
All 32 onboard were taken aboard the assisting vessels and transported to Miami Beach Marina where there were checked out by Maimi Beach Rescue crews. No injuries were reported.
“We saw, like, a bunch of cop boats, like police boats, and there was another yacht that was flipped over, completely vertical in the water,” said Rachel Miller, who witnessed the incident,
The $6 million yacht was later pushed out of the channel and left to sink in shallow water where it would not endanger other boaters.
