The U.S. Coast Guard is continuing its search and rescue operations off Fairport Harbor following the location of one of two presumptive victims of a capsize fishing boat.
Coast Guard spokeswoman Petty Officer Second Class Lauren Steenson on Friday afternoon said that a report was received about 11 a.m., Thursday of an overturned vessel located about four miles north of Fairport Harbor in Lake Erie.
Responding, the Coast Guard found the vessel with the only passenger being a dog that was huddling in the boat’s hold, Steenson said.
Using the boat’s Ohio registration numbers, the Coast Guard contacted a woman at the residence. Of the boat’s owner.
The woman said her husband and son had gone fishing in Lake Erie on Wednesday but had not returned, Steenson said.
Steenson said the Coast Guard enabled its various Ninth District assets. Among them were several surface vessels along with a helicopter from the Coast Guard’s base in Detroit.
Joining the Coast Guard in the search and rescue operations were a number of state and local agencies involved in waterways activities, Steenson said also.
Search and rescue operations continued throughout Thursday, into the night, and all day Friday, Steenson also said.
On Friday, Seenson said, a body was found near Fairport Harbor, but was unable to say whether it was one of the two boaters who went out on a fishing excursion Wednesday.
However, since a body was located the Coast Guard has extended its search and rescue operations, and added the federal agency does not use the term “recovery.”
“As long as we have assets working it is search and rescue,” Steenson said.
- Jeffrey L. Frischkorn
JFrischk@Ameritech.net
JFrischk4@gmail.com
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