Topic: boat accident

Former boat captain Sean Michael McDonald has been sentenced to seven years and one month in jail for a 2019 boating accident that claimed the lives of two people and injured another.

Police have arrested a 35-year-old resident of George Town on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with a boating accident on 11 Aug. that killed two people.

Police have made no arrest or laid any charges in connection with a fatal boat crash last month that claimed the lives of two men and left one woman seriously injured.

With a boating accident that killed two men earlier this month still fresh in people’s minds, North Side Legislative Assembly Member Ezzard Miller is hoping the government will finally act on legislation passed in 2015 calling for greater regulation on maritime vessels.

The Royal Cayman Islands Police is bringing a marine accident reconstruction investigator from overseas to help with the probe into the fatal boat crash on Sunday, 11 Aug., in which two men were killed and a woman seriously injured.

Two men killed in a Sunday night boating accident have been identified as Emmanuel Brown, 49, and John Turner, 70.

Search and rescue personnel were looking for a missing person following a fatal boat crash late Sunday night near the Prospect area of North Sound, police said.

A Caymanian boat captain who died late Monday off the coast of the Florida Keys has been identified as Armand Dilbert, 67, of East End.