Coast Guard 24 foot Special Purpose Craft – Shallow Water File Photo
NEW ORLEANS— The Coast Guard is searching for a person in the water in Dulac, Louisiana, Friday.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a report at 1 p.m. of a running vehicle with an empty boat trailer at a boat launch near Old Bridge Road with an unmanned vessel drifting nearby.
Sector watchstanders later received a report that a surveillance camera had recorded a man from the vehicle enter the water in Bayou Dulac.
Involved in the search are:
- A 24-foot Special Purpose Craft-Shallow Water boatcrew from Coast Guard Station Grand Isle
- An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew from Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans
- Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
- Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office
