
Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans MH-65 Dolphin helicopter file photo
NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard, along with local and state responders are searching for a mariner who went missing after his vessel took on water near Baton Rogue, Louisiana, Wednesday evening.
Missing is an African-American male last seen in the water without a lifejacket near mile marker 232 on the Lower Mississippi River.
Rescue crews searching are:
- A Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew
- A Coast Guard Station New Orleans 29-foot Response Boat-Small boatcrew
- Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
- East Baton Rogue Sheriffs Office
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