Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Man presumed dead in tugboat mishap

|
|
 
  
Published: April 10, 2011 at 9:55 PM

SAN FRANCISCO, April 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. Coast Guard said Sunday it had given up the search for a 52-year-old man presumed dead after a tugboat capsized off Ocean Beach in San Francisco.

The missing San Anselmo man was aboard the 43-foot tugboat "Richardson's Bay" with another man Saturday afternoon when the accident occurred, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The second man, 53, was rescued and hospitalized for shock and mild hypothermia, the newspaper said. Neither man's name had been released.

The men had been traveling to retrieve a lost skiff and authorities received a mayday call about 2 p.m., the Coast Guard said.

The two men abandoned their boat. The man who was rescued had a life ring while the missing man had been with an inflatable boat that was found later washed up on shore along with a life jacket.

© 2011 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Presidential election in Yemen The Brit Awards in London Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Linsanity Music Legends For Celebration Of Blues The fuel crisis in Gaza
Additional U.S. News Stories
1 of 19
President And Mrs. Obama Host Music Legends For Celebration Of Blues Music in Washington
View Caption
fark
Buying potato chips? That's a shootin' (w/photos and video)
Brain disease turns 22-year-old hottie into a toddler (w/ 'you'd spank it' pics)
If you're willing to entrust your back-room boob job to Queen Divas Hair Salon and Spa, then don't...
From the "You CAN make a difference" files: Tonight a City Council in California killed a proposal...
If you shoot "your friend" in the forehead at point blank range, saying he asked you to do it generally...
London Bridge may not be falling down but the Queensboro Bridge in New York sure as hell is