Office of External Affairs
U.S. Coast Guard

Date: March 17, 2008

Contact:  Lt. j.g. Isaac Mahar
(251) 379-0492 

UPDATE: COAST GUARD SEARCHING FOR MISSING BOATER 

MOBILE, Ala. - The Coast Guard suspended its search last night for one of four men whose vessel capsized in the St. Louis Bay, Saturday evening.

A watchstander at Coast Guard Station Gulfport received a report of a capsized vessel at approximately 5 p.m., Saturday.  Three of the four boaters were rescued by the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources with the Coast Guard searching for the fourth.

Assisting the Coast Guard in the search was the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, local Sheriff's Department and local Fire Department.

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