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Coast Guard searching for person in the water in Dickinson Bay, Texas

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Coast Guard searching for person in the water in Dickinson Bay, 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, Sept. 12, 2013, 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.

HOUSTON​ —The Coast Guard is searching for a person in the water after a kayak overturned in Dickinson Bay, Texas, early Wednesday morning.

At approximately 4:30 a.m., Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders received a report of an overturned kayak resulting in two people in the water. One of the individuals was able to swim to an uninhabited​ land mass located in the marsh in the western corner of the bay and used his cellphone to contact 911.​

Watchstanders launched an Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew and a Station Galveston 29-foot Response Boat–Small boat crew.​

The MH-65 AIRSTA Houston aircrew located the individual who was able to swim to shore and transferred him to the University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston.​

The individual who is still missing is reported to be a 30-year-old male wearing blue jeans and a brown-hooded sweatshirt.​

Involved in the search are:​

  • A Station Galveston 29-foot Response Boat–Small
  • Texas City Fire Department

Anyone with information​ is asked to contact the Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston Command Center at (281) 464-4851.

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