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July 9, 2008

Update: Search continues for missing Conn. sailor

A Coast Guard helicopter was used in the search this morning for a 65-year-old Conn. man who fell off his sailboat Monday afternoon near the northern entrance to the Sakonnet River, and hasn’t been seen since.

Late yesterday there had been reports that the search for Bernard Mochan had been suspended, but Coast Guard Petty Officer Lauren Jorgensen said they were incorrect.

This morning’s helicopter search did not find anyone or any signs of the Clinton, Conn. man.

“Right now,” Jorgensen said, “we’re reevaluating where we’re going from here.” The search, she said, has not been suspended.

Clinton had been boating with his wife aboard the 32-foot sailboat Elizabeth, when the vessel’s boom hit him in the head. He went overboard and was not wearing a flotation device. His wife called the Coast Guard at about 4:50 p.m.

The Coast Guard found a hat in the water about one tenth of a mile west of Tiverton. Mochan’s wife said it belonged to her husband.

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson

Posted by Brandie M. Jefferson  at 8:49 AM | Permalink

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