Coast Guard searches for missing fisherman off Bolivar Peninsula

Photo By 94th Airlift Wing | The small homemade craft a man went missing from was found Wednesday morning Aug. 28, 2013. The bait and bamboo fishing pole inside prompted a search by air and sea.  

HOUSTON, TEXAS, UNITED STATES

08.28.2013

Story by Petty Officer 3rd Class Manda Emery 

U.S. Coast Guard District 8 PADET Houston

HOUSTON — Coast Guard crews searched by air and sea Wednesday for a man that is missing presumably off Bolivar Peninsula.

They were searching for a man of Asian descent, about 50 years of age, and they request the public's help identifying and locating him. Other fishermen off Bolivar have seen him fishing there before.

A Galveston-Bolivar ferry captain reported seeing an unmanned craft which started the search. A Coast Guard crew from Station Galveston located the small homemade looking craft near the Bolivar Ferry terminal at 9:19 a.m. The craft had bait and a bamboo pole inside which prompted a more extensive search with an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Houston.

The Coast Guard suspended the search in the afternoon, pending any further information.

The Coast Guard requests that if anyone has seen the missing man or knows who he is, they should contact the Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders at [phone].

• Date Taken: 08.28.2013
• Date Posted: 08.28.2013 18:54
• Story ID: 112792
• Location: HOUSTON, TEXAS, US