Trinidadian among missing fishermen

Up to late yesterday,  the three fishermen reported missing at sea after going on a fishing expedition out of Swallows Bay, Pigeon Point, Tobago were yet to be found. They have been identified as two Tobagonians Anil “Bus-head” Ramsook, Joseph Ramkisoon and a Trinidadian, who has only been identified as “Killer.”

The pregnant wife of one of the Tobago fishermen however begged that neither her name nor her husband’s name be printed. In fact she requested that none of the men’s names be printed. According to reports, the men went fishing aboard the “Sea Eagle,” a 32-ft green and white pirogue carrying the registration number TFT 1338 and were expected to return on Friday but have not been seen since. The distraught woman told Newsday that on Thursday evening when she last spoke to her husband of three years via his cell phone, he said that he was on his way home, however, hours later she received a message from a friend that he (her husband) had called to say that they had experienced engine failure. By Friday, friends and relatives had organised a search party but the men could not be found.

She expressed frustration at the way in which the Coast Guard was handling the matter. “I tired calling the Coast Guard and they don’t have any news. They only saying call back and each time I have to identify myself. I getting the vibes that they not looking properly for them. “If I wasn’t pregnant, I would get a boat and go out and look for them myself,” she cried. The woman, who is carrying the couple’s first child, said that she believes that they are still “somewhere out there” and she was not going to stop praying for their safe return. “What God put together, no man can separate,” she said. A Coast Guard official told Newsday that given the time frame in which the men have been out at sea there is “a great possibility that the men are still alive.” The official said that they have been continuing the search for the three-man crew.