An attorney representing one of the survivors of last week's sailboat-barge crash in Biscayne Bay says it was "a preventable" tragedy.

“It was a preventable crash, and that preventable crash has resulted in a world of trauma and hurt and tragedy for these families,” attorney Justin Shapiro told WLRN.

Shapiro has been hired by the family of Calena Gruber, one of three survivors of a crash that killed three other young girls last Monday when a barge slammed into a Miami Yacht Club summer camp sailboat.

The sailboat was carrying a group of children during a sailing summer camp on Biscayne Bay near Hibiscus Island. The crash sent six people, including a camp counselor, on the sailboat into the water.

Coast Guard officials said the six were rescued and sent to Jackson Memorial Hospital, whe

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