The Greek coast guard tried to get the boat to stop, but a “pursuit ensued with the operator of the speed boat making repeated dangerous maneuvers and attempts to ram the patrol craft,” according to the press release.Authorities said they fired two warning shots but when the speed boat driver failed to stop they fired two “targeted shots at the machine.” The speedboat then decelerated and overturned, “hitting the right side of the patrol boat, causing the speed boat’s air chamber to rupture and immobilize,” the press release stated.The boat sank following the incident, according to the coast guard. The driver needed medical treatment and was reportedly transferred to Rhodes, where he remains hospitalized.Port officials then searched on land for the migrants, and found “21 foreigners who were identified and transferred to the port authority of Symi,” the coast guard said. The migrants told the authorities they had set off from Bozburun in Turkey and had each paid 4,500 euros for their transport to Symi.A similar event occurred off the island of Samos, stated the Greek coast guard in a separate press release. Early on Monday morning the port authority of Samos “was informed of the existence of a suspicious high-speed vessel coming from the Turkish coast and heading towards the southern coast of Samos,” it said.The coast guard sent a patrol boat to the area. It said that the operator of the boat “did not comply with instructions to stop, and a pursuit ensued resulting in his arrest.”The crew of the patrol boat then “rounded up 17 foreign occupants” on board the speed boat. They included 12 men and five women. These people were taken to the port of Pythagoreion and then to a closed controlled facility in Samos.The pilot of the boat was reported to be an 18-year-old foreigner who was “arrested as a trafficker of the rest.” The Samos port authority confiscated the boat and a mobile phone, and is continuing investigations.