Third Body Found During Search for Missing Boaters In Alabama's Mobile Bay

The Associated Press
Published: April 28,2015



 

Search efforts continue for three people missing after a deadly weekend storm Monday, April 27, 2015, in Dauphin Island, Ala.
( (Mike Kittrell/AL.com via AP))

A third body has been found in the search for missing boaters who were thrown into Mobile Bay during a storm, the Coast Guard said Tuesday.
Officials said in a statement that the Coast Guard and the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency have confirmed the body is one of the people who was reported missing during a boat race Saturday as the storm hit.
A person fishing near an offshore gas platform Tuesday morning found the body. The boater's name hasn't been released.

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Authorities have already recovered the bodies of 27-year-old Kris Beall of Pineville, Louisiana, and 72-year-old Robert Delaney of Madison, Mississippi.
Coast Guard spokesman Seth Johnson says officials are still searching for three others.
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Thunderstorms and high waves complicated the search for the missing Monday.
The annual race, sponsored by Mobile-area yacht clubs on a rotating basis, begins in the middle of Mobile Bay. Sailboats ranging in size from small catamarans to single-hull craft capable of carrying a half-dozen people or more race southward through the shallow waters toward Dauphin Island, a barrier island on Alabama's coast.
More than 100 sailboats and as many as 200 people were participating in the 57th running of the race when the storm hit Saturday afternoon.
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