The aircraft was later sold and used in running liquor from the Bahamas to Florida during prohibition until it was destroyed in a storm at Bimini Island.
Epicrates striatus is found in The Bahamas, the Bimini Islands, and on Hispaniola.
The private island of Cat Cay in the Bimini Islands was severely impacted by the hurricane, with damage estimated at $100 million (1992 USD).
The population around the Bimini Islands in the western Bahamas, where Gruber's Bimini Biological Field Station is situated, is probably the best known of all shark populations.
The Bimini Islands have been the capital of sport fishing for decades; here you'll find hundreds of huge boats lining the marinas waiting to be taken out into the teeming waters.
The Herald also reported that Mr. Hart had spent time with Ms. Rice on a yacht on Bimini Island.
The plane was heading for Bimini Island in the Bahamas, emergency officials said.
From 1948 until 1950 he travelled to Central America to conduct research in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Bimini Island off the Bahamas.
According to Gilbert, the final segment of the trip, typically a 90-minute shot by powerboat from the Bimini Islands, Bahamas, to Broward Beach, Fla., costs about $3,000 a person.
Tropidophis canus curtus (Garman 1887) - Native to New Providence, Bimini Island and Cay Sal Bank.