Trelawny Relatives Hold Out Hope for Missing Falmouth Fisherman Dennis Clarke

现年58岁、来自Trelawny郡Green Park的渔民Dennis Clarke上周日出海后失踪,其亲人仍坚信他能够生还归来。

Clarke的侄女Kelesha Stubbs在接受《THE WEEKEND STAR》采访时,描述了自他失踪以来笼罩在全家上空的沉重氛围。她说:"We would feel much better if he came back home because everybody is sad since [he disappeared]. Everyone just have this sad look because we want to see him。"

据亲属介绍,Clarke于周日清晨6时左右离家,原计划在Falmouth Fishing Village与兄长会合,出海捕鱼一天。然而两人始终未能碰面,Clarke当晚也未归家,家人随即报警求助。

Stubbs回忆道:"From Sunday he leave say him gone a sea and all now I can't see him, looking Monday I can't see him so I said 'You know what? I am going in town to find out what's going on', and when I went there, I saw no signs。"她表示,自己从Green Park驱车约十分钟前往Falmouth的渔村寻找线索。

她补充说:"I asked around [at the fishing village] and they said no they don't see him. So I just don't understand. We went out there again and still don't see nothing so everyone is asking where is he。"

周三出现了一个重大进展——家人在海岸线附近、靠近Falmouth All-Age School的地方发现了他的随身物品,Clarke平日习惯将物品存放在那里。

Stubbs说:"We saw the bag with his clothes and his slippers. It's his one strap bag, and then that brown shopping bag with his clothes and so. That's up by the school way where he always put his things。"

对家人而言,这一发现被视为令人振奋的迹象。她推断道:"This mean that he did left out to go to sea then because the clothes that he wear is in the bag. But the ones he would dive in are missing。"

尽管如此,Stubbs仍对潜水员及Jamaica Defence Force Coast Guard成员的搜寻迄今毫无所获感到失望。

虽然Clarke没有亲生子女,但他侄女表示他与家人关系极为亲密。她声音渐渐低沉地说:"Everyone thinks I am his child, that's the relationship we have。"

陪同家属在家中守候的友人Ronnalie Green指出,实际上没有任何人亲眼看到Clarke下水。她说:"He used to go fishing by himself but him stop that ... him don't usually pass the reef。"

Green说,周三传来一条线索,称有人在外海的小岛(cays)附近见到Clarke。她表示:"The other fishermen and his brother went to look. They don't see him or any boat, but they said that's a location he can swim to。"