U.S. Coast Guard photo by PA2 Adam Eggers.
HOUSTON — The Coast Guard crews and partners are search for a missing boater approximately five miles east of Kemah, Texas, Saturday evening.
An MH-65 Dolphin aircrew from Coast Guard Air Station Houston and a Response Boat-Medium crew from Coast Guard Station Houston are involved in search.
The missing boater is a male in his mid-40s wearing a blue shirt with grey shorts.
At approximately 5 p.m., the Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders were notified by the 911 dispatch of a boater ejected without a life jacket from an 18-foot vessel in the Houston Ship Channel at Light 67. It was reported the vessel operator’s seat broke causing him to sharply turn the wheel. The other three boaters on the vessel were not ejected and are uninjured.
A search and rescue hoist demonstration was one of several displays of Coast Guard SAR capabilities performed during the workgroup.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Dustin R. Williams.
Watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast and launched a Coast Guard Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew and a Station Houston Response Boat-Medium boat crew to search.
Involved in the search are:
- Kemah Fire Department
- Seabrook Police Department
- Port of Houston
- Chambers County Sheriff’s Office
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