UPDATE: Missing fishermen found safe after engine trouble at sea

SASCHA WIL­SON

Se­nior Re­porter

Two fish­er­men who were re­port­ed miss­ing off the south-east coast of Trinidad have been found safe af­ter ex­pe­ri­enc­ing en­gine prob­lems while at sea.

Bri­an ‘Smells’ Williams and a sec­ond fish­er­man known as ‘Bay-K’ were lo­cat­ed around 9 pm on Sun­day, af­ter con­cerns grew when they failed to re­turn from a fish­ing trip.

The Hunters Search and Res­cue Team, led by Cap­tain Val­lence Ramb­harat, con­firmed that the men were found af­ter their ves­sel en­coun­tered me­chan­i­cal dif­fi­cul­ties.

The fish­er­men had left Guayagua­yare at 4 pm on Sat­ur­day aboard a blue and teal fish­ing pirogue named ‘Richard’ and li­censed TFN 6283. They were ex­pect­ed to re­turn by 6 am yes­ter­day (March 1, 2026).

When they did not re­turn as sched­uled, an alert was cir­cu­lat­ed among fish­er­folk and ma­rine in­ter­ests from Guayagua­yare to Moru­ga, urg­ing any­one with in­for­ma­tion to as­sist in lo­cat­ing them.

They were lat­er found safe af­ter the en­gine prob­lems left them strand­ed at sea.

No in­juries were re­port­ed.