Highlighting the ever-increasing problem of illegal immigration of Haitians into the Bahamas, this Haitian sloop recently washed ashore on the southeast end of New Providence.


(For a good read on the plight of the dispossessed and the often brutal reality that faces them, check out the novel The Origins of Solitude by the Bahamas' very own Garth Buckner.)


The tattered sails of the vessel stand as a testament to just how resourceful humans can be when faced with such desparation: the sails are made from modern banner advertisements for a car company and a custom home builder, lashed to the mast with a banner ad for Corona beer.


If not for the decidedly modern theme of these ads, this vessel looks eerily like something out of Captain Jack Sparrow's Pirates of the Caribbean.

Although Bahamian officials don't know when the vessel landed or what happened to its passengers, it's a good bet that they quickly vanished into one of Nassau's many Haitian enclaves in the hopes of finding work and a life better than the one they left behind.


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