Lindsey Gay had an unexpected educational experience in March during a research project at sea.

Gay was one of twenty-two students and eleven crew members aboard the Corwith Cramer who came upon a disabled boat carrying forty-nine Haitians—fourteen of them children—north of Jamaica, where the boat had been headed.

The students and crew took the Haitians aboard and gave them food, water, and shelter until the U.S. Coast Guard, Jamaican Defense Force, and health experts could coordinate their safe delivery to Jamaica.

Gay was in the fifth week of a six-week voyage, part of the Sea Educational Association's semester-long marine science and maritime program.

She says she was glad to have been able to help the Haitians, who were found adrift without a mast.

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