JOURNALISTS AMONG HAITANS RESCUED OFF HAITI

By: Staff reports Writer, Photographer Were Chronicling Voyage



The Miami Herald reported Thursday that the U.S. Coast Guard

rescued 46 people from a sinking sailboat near Haiti - including

two free-lance journalists covering the voyage for The New York

Times Magazine.



The wooden sailboat started taking on water 18 miles northwest of

Haiti, when a Coast Guard vessel on routine patrol spotted the

craft, the Herald said.



The Haitians, writer Michael Finkel, and photographer Christopher

Anderson, were turned over to Bahamian authorities because the

craft was found in that country's waters. The Haitians will be

returned to their country, and the journalists are believed to be

heading back to New York.



The journalists were chronicling a wave of Haitian immigration.

The Herald reported that the Coast Guard has interdicted 746

Haitians so far this year, compared with 480 last year. Fourteen

Haitians died last month when their ship sank off the Bahamas.