Coast Guard search for missing boater in West Bay, Galveston, Texas

Coast Guard is search for missing boater in West Bay, near Galveston, Texas. MH-65 Dolphin Air Station Houston. HH-65C Air Station Houston. — Archive image: an MH-65C Dolphin helicopter sits on the tarmac in the morning in front of Coast Guard Air Station Houston.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by PA1 Adam Eggers

HOUSTON — Coast Guard Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin and 45-foot Response Boat-Medium Station Houston crews search for a missing boater in West Bay near Galveston, Texas, Monday.

Missing is 63-year-old Danny Wren, last seen wearing a red shirt with no lifejacket.

At approximately 11:15 p.m. Sunday evening, Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders were notified of a missing boater near Middle Deer Island who had lost control of his 16-foot skiff while attempting to retrieve his brother who was wade fishing at the time. The brother last saw him clinging to the side of the skiff. Due to all of their communications devices on the adrift vessel, the brother was unable to notify authorities until a good Samaritan vessel arrived on scene.

Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast and launched an Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin aircrew and a Station Galveston 45-foot Response Boat-Medium boat crew to search.

Involved in the search are:

Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston

Coast Guard Air Station Houston

Coast Guard Station Galveston

Galveston Fire Department

Anyone with any information is requested to contact the Sector Houston-Galveston command center at 281-464-4854.

Coast Guard is search for missing boater in West Bay, near Galveston, Texas. MH-65 Dolphin Air Station Houston. — Archive image: Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael Vicchiariello, an aviation survival technician from Air Station Houston, is lowered from an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter to a 45-foot Response Boat — Medium during a trail line delivery evolution, off the coast of Galveston, Texas. The Air Station and Station Galveston conduct helicopter hoist training in order to maintain readiness, qualifications and to train new crewmembers.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Manda M. Emery.

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