Coast Guard Cutter Beluga file photo
HOUSTON — The Coast Guard is searching for a missing diver 75 miles south of Sabine Pass, Texas, Thursday.
Missing is 65 year-old Alfred Charles Lensing.
Eighth Coast Guard District watchstanders received an emergency position indicating radio beacon signal Wednesday evening from a 22-foot pleasure craft tied to an oil rig. Watchstanders contacted the person on the vessel who activated the EPIRB and learned that a second person on the vessel had gone spear fishing but did not resurface.
Involved in the search are:
- Coast Guard Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircrew
- Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircrew
- Coast Guard Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew
- Coast Guard Cutter Beluga crew
- Coast Guard Cutter Pompano crew
