Miami boat crash: 2 bodies recovered, 10 rescued, US Coast Guard says
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The U.S. Coast Guard on Friday rescued 10 people and recovered two bodies after two boats collided off Key Biscayne near Miami.
U.S. Coast Guard officials on Friday rescued 10 people and recovered two bodies after two boats collided on Key Biscayne off the coast of Miami. (US Coast Guard) Coast Guard Station Miami Beach small boat and helicopter crews rescued 10 people and recovered one body from the water on Friday. (Jeffrey Greenberg) Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for FOX Business and Fox News. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
"On behalf of the Coast Guard and our partner agencies, we'd like to offer our sincerest condolences to the families and friends who lost their loved ones," Coast Guard Grad Sector Miami Lt. Cmdr. Benjamin Tuxhorn said in a Saturday statement. "The Coast Guard and our local partner agencies quickly responded and exhaustively worked together on this search and rescue case."
An individual involved in the collision contacted the Coast Guard around 10:30 p.m. to report 12 people in the water about 1 mile west of Key Biscayne.