Ua make kekahi kanaka mākaʻikaʻi ʻAmelika i ka wā i pahū ai kahi moku huakaʻi ma Bahamas i ke kakahiaka Poaono. He 10 mau mākaʻikaʻi - ʻo ʻAmelika āpau - a me 2 mau pūʻali Bahamian ma luna o ka moku hoʻolimalima 40-kapuaʻi i ka wā i pahū ai kahi mīkini. Ua ʻōlelo nā mea hōʻike e lele ana ka poʻe ma luna o ka moku.
ʻO ka poʻe he 12 ma luna o ka moku, he 10 i ʻeha ma hope o ka pau ʻana o ka waʻa i ke ahi. Ua hoʻokuʻu aku ka US Coast Guard i 4 mau mākaʻikaʻi ʻAmelika i kahi haukapila pili kokoke i Florida, aʻo nā poʻe ʻē aʻe i lawe ʻia i ka Halemai Princess Margaret ma Nassau ma kahi o 100 mile ka mamao no ka mālama ʻana, ʻo ia hoʻi ke kāpena waʻa i hoʻokuʻu ʻia mai ia manawa. ʻEhā poʻe ʻAmelika i kēia manawa ua hoʻi i ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa.
ʻO kekahi o nā mākaʻikaʻi ʻAmelika i lawe ʻia i kahi haukapila ʻo Stefanie Schaffer, he 22 makahiki, he hula no Vermont. Aia ʻo ia i kahi koma ma hope o ka ʻoki ʻana i nā wāwae ʻelua. ʻO kona kaikuahine, ʻo Brook, a me nā mākua, ʻo Stacey lāua ʻo Paul, aia nō ma luna o ka moku no ka mea i manaʻo ʻia he ʻāpana o kahi hoʻomaha hoʻomaha.
Ua hoʻonohonoho ʻia ka moku e holo i kahi huakaʻi mai ka mokupuni ʻo Barraterre ma Exuma Cays, kekahi o nā wahi mākaʻikaʻi Bahamas kaulana loa, e ʻike i nā puaʻa ʻauʻau kai kaulana Bahamas. Ua kōkua nā poʻe hele mai kahi moku huakaʻi kokoke i ka hoʻopakele ʻana i ka poʻe mai ka moku ahi.
Ke noiʻi nei ka lālā Royal Bahamas Police Force Exuma i ke kumu o ka pahū.
