Seeing Miami, Isabel starts to cry, out of relief and because Iván got so close but did not make it. Something on the boat breaks, and the crafts start taking on even more water; everyone except Isabel’s mother starts to bail water. Isabel realizes that the engine is weighing the back of the boat down, so she and Amara break it free and toss it over the side of the boat. An argument a about how to reach shore without the motor is interrupted by a siren. A United States Coast Guard vessel calls to them in Spanish: they are going to be boarded.
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