United States Coast Guard crews have suspended their search for a missing 35-year-old fisherman in the waters off South Padre Island.
Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi command center watchstanders received a call at 5 a.m. Saturday on VHF-FM channel 16 from the master of the 65-foot commercial fishing vessel Santa Fe stating one of his crew members was missing 35 miles offshore Land Cut.
The missing man was described as a 5-foot, 10-inch tall, 150-pound Hispanic male last seen wearing a tank top and shorts.
The man was reportedly not wearing a life jacket.
Watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast and launched MH-65 Dolphin helicopter and HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crews from Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi and a Coast Guard Station South Padre Island 33-foot Special Purpose Craft–Law Enforcement boat crew to search for the missing man.
