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The Coast Guard suspended its active search Tuesday evening for a crewmember that fell off a bulk carrier while transiting the Santa Barbara Channel Traffic Separation Scheme en route to the Port of Long Beach.
“We extend our deepest sympathies to this crewmember’s friends and family,” said Chief Warrant Officer John Rose, search and rescue mission coordinator at Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach. “The decision to suspend an active search is never easy and is only made after exhaustive efforts to find the missing person.”
The Coast Guard crews searched by air and sea for nearly 15 hours, covering more than 200 square nautical miles.
Coast Guard Searching for Missing Boater Near Point Conception
By the U.S. Coast Guard
June 20, 2023
The Coast Guard is actively searching for a person who fell overboard from a bulk carrier vessel 14 miles off the coast of Point Conception, California.
At approximately 5 a.m., Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles – Long Beach Command Center watchstanders received a report of a crewmember who went overboard from the African Cardinal, a bulk carrier vessel, 14 miles southwest of Point Conception, California.
The watchstanders immediately issued an Urgent Marine Information Broadcast (UMIB) via VHF channel 16, stating the nature of the situation. The Command Center watchstanders directed the launch of an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter rescue crew from Forward Operating Base Point Mugu, a small boat crew from Coast Guard Station Channel Islands, and diverted the Coast Guard Cutter Robert Ward to conduct the search.
Please call Sector Los Angeles – Long Beach with any information that could assist with the rescue at (310) 521-3801.
The search is still ongoing.
Well, he will end up at the south end of Anacapa and that is how that works.
“Boater” is a misnomer. The individual lost at sea was/is a crew member on freighter.