Lost and found fishermen…
BOAT OWNER, Winston Goriah, whose fishing boat, ‘Captain Sunil’, went missing with its crew of three after a four-day fishing trip at sea, is thankful that not only has the vessel been recovered but most of all that the crew is alive and well.
Reports are that members of the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard located vessel and crew in the vicinity of the North West District some time on Friday after being tipped off that they were seen there.

Crew members, Jairam Paul Surujpaul and his brother and vessel’s captain, Girjoedhan Surujpaul

Goriah told the Guyana Chronicle that he yesterday visited the Coast Guard unit here in the city to get an update on the situation, and was told that the crew will be returned to the city some time in the evening while the vessel was lodged at Mabaruma in care of a Coast Guard unit posted there.
Goriah said he was told that the men are safe, but that engine problems had caused them to sail off-course, which is how they came to be stranded in the North West.
The Coast Guard had initiated the search after Goriah got word that the boat and the crew were spotted in the area.
Goriah said he is waiting on the men to be reunited with their families, and is pleased that nothing untoward had happened to them. He is also grateful that his boat was recovered intact.
In an earlier interview, Goriah had told the Guyana Chronicle that the three crew members — Captain, Girjoedhan Surujpaul and his brother, Jairam Paul Surujpaul, both of Vigilance, and their cousin, Lochan Teserdeen of Bladen Hall, East Coast Demerara — had gone missing after leaving for sea on a four-day fishing trip.
They left onboard the ‘Captain Sunil’, a black-striped red and grey vessel with a 40 horsepower Yamaha engine and 400 lbs of seine. Goriah had said that boat and crew were put to sea in the vicinity of Stratsphey, East Coast Demerara but did not return as was expected.
He had explained that it was only a month now that he’d managed to quit his job at the Guyana Fisheries as a security guard and bought the fishing boat so he could earn a decent living.
After two searches, in which he was involved, failed to locate the missing vessel and crew, Goriah said he contacted ‘Flights of Hope’ and mounted an aerial search, but to no avail.
He said the pilot, Mr. Orlando Charles flew for about two hours combing the Atlantic Ocean but the search came up empty-handed once again.