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Crews began searching by land, sea and air Saturday evening
after the Coast Guard received a report that a 21-foot boat
carrying three adults and three children had failed to return to
shore in Sonoma County, north of San Francisco, U.S. Coast Guard
Chief Petty Officer Levi Read said.
On Sunday, search crews found the 11-year-old boy alive along
South Salmon Creek Beach, north of Bodega Bay, who was taken to
a hospital and stabilized. The boy, who was found wearing a
vest, was interviewed by first responders and told them the boat
capsized, Deputy Rob Dillion, a spokesman with the Sonoma County
Sheriff's Office told the Press Democrat newspaper.
Hours after the boy was found, searchers located the body of a
teenager in the water, Read said.
Five members of a family and a friend were on a blue and white
Bayliner that set out from Bodega Bay at 3 p.m. on Saturday, the
first day of the recreational Dungeness crab season. The group
from Corning, a city about 170 miles (273 kilometers) north of
San Francisco, was fishing for crab and was expected to return
to shore by 7 p.m., Read said.
When they didn't show up, a family member contacted the Sonoma
County Sheriff's Office, which in turn contacted the Coast
Guard, he said.
The search effort involving crews from eight local, state and
federal agencies was suspended Sunday evening but could resume
if new information emerges that could help officials narrow the
search, which covered more than 2,100 square miles, he said.
“The decision to suspend a search is always difficult to make
and never done lightly,” said U.S. Coast Guard Chief Warrant
Officer Michael L. Zapawa, who also coordinated the search and
rescue, said in a statement. “Our thoughts and prayers are with
the families of the missing boaters during this incredibly
difficult time.”
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