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July 8, 2008

Search continues for missing boater from Conn.

The Coast Guard and other agencies were continuing their search this morning for a Connecticut man who fell off his sailboat yesterday afternoon near the northern entrance of the Sakonnet River

A helicopter from Air Station Cape Cod this morning joined the cutter Tiger Shark, which searched through the night without finding Bernard Mochan, 65, of Clinton, Conn., according to Petty Officer Connie Terrell at the Coast Guard's First District headquarters in Boston.

Mochan was boating with his wife aboard the 32-foot Elizabeth when he was struck on the head by the vessel’s boom and went overboard. He was not wearing a flotation device. Mochan's wife called the Coast Guard around 4:50 p.m.

Late last night the crew of a 25-foot Coast Guard boat out of Castle Hill in Newport found a hat in the waters of the search area centered about one-tenth of a mile west of Tiverton, the Coast Guard said. Mochan's wife confirmed it belonged to her husband.

Posted by Jack Perry  at 9:35 AM | Permalink

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