In a 20-foot boat like the one below, Romero and his wife (opposite), El Duque
and five other refugees:
1. left Cuba
for Anguilla Cay to meet Ramis's boat (A), which took on water and never showed;
2. were picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard
and ferried to waters off Havana
, after four days stranded on Anguilla Cay;
3. took another Coast Guard
ship to Bimini, where bad weather prevented docking;
4. proceeded to Freeport
;
5. were flown to a detention camp in Nassau
;
6. jetted to Costa Rica
.