BALTIMORE -- Coast Guard and partner agency personnel are searching for a missing boater approximately 5 miles southwest of Tangier Island, Monday.
Coast Guard watchstanders at Sector Maryland-National Capitol Region were notified of a 40-foot vessel with two people aboard taking on water off Tangier Island at approximately 2:30 p.m.
A Coast Guard 45-foot Response Boat-Medium boatcrew from Station Crisfield, the crew of the 87-foot cutter Cochito, a Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City rescue helicopter crew and an aircrew from Naval Air Station Patuxent River responded.
A good samaritan was able to locate one of the people in the water and brought him back to Tangier Island in stable condition.
Weather conditions in the area continue to remain hazardous with high winds, rain, and reduced visibility.
Coast Guard units continue to search for the missing boater.
God help them.
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ReplyDeleteI pray for his safe return.
ReplyDeleteWord to the wise: as soon as your boat starts to take on water or catch fire - or any other emergency- put on your damn life jacket!!! And if you don't know where they are, you shouldn't be on the water. This goes for your boat or anyone else's boat. Know where they are before you leave the dock. Jeez!
ReplyDeleteSometimes people are taken by surprise such as a large hole that would fill the boat with water alarmingly quick, like hitting something not seen from the waters surface. A boat being capsized by another boat's wake or suddenly being hit by another boater who fled the scene quickly to avoid charges. No one knows but the surviving boater and I am sure we will have the answers. God bless the family of the life lost and the survivor and their family.
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