MOBILE, Ala.— The Coast Guard is searching for a 43-year-old man who went missing when his boat capsized just north of Fort Morgan in Mobile Bay early Saturday morning.
Coast Guard Sector Mobile watchstanders received a call just after midnight from a good samaritan that a pleasure boat in Mobile Bay had capsized. Two of the three people on the boat were wearing life jackets and safely swam to shore. The missing man was not wearing a life jacket and was last seen clinging to an ice chest.
The following Coast Guard units are searching:
- 87-foot Coast Guard Cutter Stingray and crew
- A 25-foot small boat and crew from Station Dauphin Island
- A 41-foot small boat and crew from Station Dauphin Island
- An MH-65C Dolphin rescue helicopter and crew from Air Station New Orleans
- An HC-144 Ocean Sentry search plane and crew from Aviation Training Center Mobile
