It would be a "miracle" if 70-year-old Jerome Brown and his 50-year-old fishing partner Perry Bain are found alive after being lost at sea for more than two days, according to Bahamas Air Sea Rescue Association (BASRA) Vice-Commodore Richard Parker.

The men reportedly went missing after their boat crashed into a vessel belonging to the Bahamas Fast Ferries on Sunday around 9 p.m. Several teams from the Royal Bahamas Police Force and the Bahamas Air Sea Rescue Association (BASRA) combed the area where the vessel was struck in search of the missing men, but up to press time yesterday they had seen no sign of them.

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If 70-year-old Jerome Brown and his 50-year-old fishing partner Perry Bain were in fact dead, their bodies would have been discovered as of yesterday, according to Chief Petty Officer Ralph McKinney of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force.

"We normally say that any bodies will come up on the third day and we are still scouring that area together with BASRA [Bahamas Air Sea Rescue Asociation]. Hopefully we will come up with something before sundown," McKinney told The Nassau Guardian yesterday. But up to press time last night, The Guardian, unfortunately, received no reports that the men - missing since Sunday night - had been discovered. It was revealed, however, that the fishing vessel had no visible running lights - a requirement for boats operating in Nassau Harbor - making it impossible for them to be spotted by any large approaching vessel.

"I don't think the boat had lights, not physically," the RBDF's McKinney admitted. "Normally when you have a small boat like that, it normally comes with what is called a combined lantern, which is a small three-in-one lantern that's red, white and green. It's only slightly bigger than a U.S. fifty cent piece but the boat that they were on, no, they did not have a light," he said. "A small boat like that will also not be picked up on the radar because it's very low to the water."

The Guardian also received reports last night from a navigational expert who purported that the men, because of the minor damage sustained to the fishing vessel, might have been struck by another vessel.

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