SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Coast Guard suspended its search Sunday night for four yacht crew members who went missing off the Northern California coast after a weekend racing accident and has no plans to resume it, officials said.
Petty Officer Caleb Critchfield said the search was reluctantly halted at sundown Sunday after aircraft and boats searched more than 5,000 square miles of ocean over more than 30 hours.
“There’s a window of survivability and we searched well beyond that window,” he told The Associated Press.
The crewmembers — Alan Cahill, of Tiburon, Calif.; Jordan Fromm, of San Rafael, Calif.; Elmer Morrissey, of Ireland; Alexis Busch, of Larkspur, Calif. — were thrown into the 50- degree waters when a series of disastrous events caused their sailboat to run aground during a race Saturday near the Farallon Islands, about 25 miles offshore.
The body of 46- year- old Marc Kasanin of Belvedere, Calif., was pulled from the water hours after the accident. The three remaining crew members survived.
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