Coast Guard Suspends Search Efforts After Missing Sailor is Located
USCG C-130 File PhotoNEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard suspended search efforts after a mariner who was reported missing while on a sailing trip between Houston and Ocean Springs, Miss., was found Tuesday.
After encountering a storm on his sailing trip, Josiah Victor Hoffman, 52, noticed his rudder was inoperable. He anchored his vessel off the coast of Marsh Island, La., in Vermilion Bay.
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