Searchers spent 281 hours scouring about 200,000 square nautical miles along the Pacific coast, an area larger than the state of California,
Frank and Kerry O'Brien, shown here in a photo posted on Twitter by the U.S. Coast Guard, and a friend have not been seen since their sailboat left Mazatlan, Mexico, on April 4. Kerry O'Brien is from Westmoreland County, Pa. The Coast Guard has called off the search for the sailboat and extended its "deepest sympathies" to the families.The search for a missing sailboat in the Pacific Ocean carrying a Pennsylvania native and two others has been suspended, said the U.S.
Searchers spent 281 hours scouring about 200,000 square nautical miles, an area larger than the state of California, without finding any evidence of the sailboat. “An exhaustive search was conducted by our international search and rescue partner, Mexico, with the U.S. Coast Guard and Canada providing additional search assets,” Coast Guard Commander Gregory Higgins in Alameda, Calif.,Higgins said the agencies “worked hand-in-hand” on the search for the 44-foot fiberglass Ocean Bound carrying Kerry O’Brien, a native of Westmoreland County, her husband, Frank, and friend William Gross.
“Unfortunately, we found no evidence of the three Americans’ whereabouts or what might have happened,” Higgins said. “Our deepest sympathies go out to the families and friends of William Gross, Kerry O’Brien and Frank O’Brien.”
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