The U.S. shoreline Guard announced on Wednesday that it has halted its search for two fishermen whose boat was discovered crashed and washed up on the Palos Verdes shoreline.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department got a phone at 5 a.m. on Tuesday, stating that the two males, who have not been named by officials, were expected to arrive at Cabrillo Beach at midnight following hoop-net fishing. Since then, they have been missing. However, they never came back.
They vanished along the coast of Los Angeles County, where there was a high surf alert warning of waves as high as 8 to 12 feet and powerful, dangerous rip currents.
According to Jake Miller, an ocean lifeguard specialist with the fire department, their 25-foot boat was found during the search, which started at 5:30 Tuesday and involved the use of drones, boats, and jet skis. In Palos Verdes Estates, in south Los Angeles County, it was discovered overturned and crashed in a rocky area between the cliffs between Bluff Cove and Lunada Bay.
Until Wednesday morning, the efforts persisted. The Coast Guard then said in a post to X that the search was halted at 1:41 p.m. According to a federal agency official later Wednesday, this pause in operations is being referred to as a “active suspension,” meaning that if there are indications of distress indicators, such people waving for assistance, the search will restart.
According to the Coast Guard, the search is currently on hold because there are no such indicators and other nearby boaters are not reacting to an Urgent Mariners Information Broadcast, or UMIB. Other boaters are urged by this advisory to report any indicators of people in distress they may come across.
Much of California’s coastline has been under high surf warnings this week, with beaches in Northern California being hammered by waves as high as 30 to 35 feet in places like Monterey Bay, Big Sur, and the North Bay coast. One person went missing in Monterey County after being dragged in by the heavy surf, while another person died in Santa Cruz County after becoming stuck behind some debris carried by a big wave.
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