A statement has been made on the NBC "Today" show that a boat was lost during the recent Newport Bermuda Race. The speaker, Laurence Sunderland, could have been referring to a report in On Scene, the U.S. Coast Guard's Search and Rescue website, that "a participant in the Newport to Bermuda Race" was dismasted and abandoned on June 15 at a position in the Atlantic 1,050 miles east of Nantucket  (See Report)

A boat was dismasted at that location, and, happily, its solo sailor was rescued using the Cospas-Sarsat System. But this boat was not entered in the Newport Bermuda Race.  After this inaccurate report became public on June 23, On Scene was twice notified by the Bermuda Race Organizing Committee that the Newport Bermuda Race was not started until June 18, over 1,000 miles from the scene of the accident.

The report had not been changed as of July 7. The Bermuda Race Organizing Committee is continuing its efforts to have the report corrected.