SEATTLE — Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound watchstanders are seeking information regarding a possible missing boater, whose vessel was located aground at Skiff Point in Bainbridge Island, Wash., this morning.
At 8:57 a.m., a member of the Bainbridge Island Police Department contacted the Coast Guard sector after locating a 29-foot vessel at Skiff Point.
A Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles aircrew, a boat crew from Station Seattle and crew aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Wahoo arrived on scene and are currently searching the area alongside local law enforcement agencies for a possible person in the water.
Aboard the vessel was a wallet, a cell phone and nautical charts. A dinghy was also located close to the vessel.
The wallet was reportedly identified as belonging to a Mr. Scott Caldwell, an Olympia, Wash., native.
If you have any information about Mr. Caldwell or his vessel, please contact our Sector Puget Sound watchstanders at 206-217-6001.