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MIAMI — The Miami Yacht Club released a video Wednesday pursuing past month’s fatal collision that killed 3 children astatine its younker sailing camp, expressing gratitude for assemblage enactment portion grieving the tragedy.
David Neblett, a maritime lawyer and nine subordinate for astir 25 years, that the enactment has received “an outpouring of enactment and encouragement from each corners of our community” since the July 28 fatal clang successful Biscayne Bay.
“On behalf of the members, staff, volunteers, and families who are portion of the Club, we privation to explicit our profound gratitude for this enactment arsenic we grapple with grief and enactment to comfortableness those who are besides grieving and surviving done this unimaginable loss,” Neblett said.
Three girls — Mila Yankelevich, 7, Erin Ko Han, 13, and Arielle Buchman, 10 — died erstwhile a barge struck their sailboat adjacent Miami Beach’s Hibiscus Island.
A 19-year-old campy counsellor and 2 children, 1 of whom was identified arsenic Calena Areyan Gruber, 7, survived.
Neblett said the yacht nine volition proceed serving arsenic “a spot wherever parents and children touched by this calamity tin travel unneurotic toward healing.”
He said the nine “remains committed to providing enactment for those impacted, including entree to indispensable services specified arsenic intelligence wellness and grief counseling,” helium added.
The enactment is besides cooperating with national authorities investigating the incident.
“We are besides thankful to the U.S. Coast Guard for their diligence successful investigating this matter,” Neblett added. “The Club and the Youth Sailing Foundation volition proceed to cooperate afloat with their probe portion we await their last report.”
A lawsuit was filed past week on behalf of 1 of the surviving children, alleging negligence successful the incident.
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