Back to the gallerySeptember 19, 1994
From a launch alongside the gray hull of a ship, a Coast Guardsman in a life vest talks on a radio while several migrants in orange life vests sit aboard.

A Coast Guard team transfers Cuban migrants to a Navy ship between Cuba and the Florida Keys during Operation Able Vigil, September 19, 1994.

Photo: PA1 Don Wagner / U.S. Coast Guard. Public domain (U.S. federal government work).

Related chapter: The Rafter Crisis (1994)

Date
September 19, 1994
Place
Straits of Florida
License
Public domain (U.S. federal government work)
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