Capsized boat found in Santa Monica
SANTA MONICA The Santa Monica Harbor Patrol found the boat around 9 p.m.
Saturday. It contained no personal effects and none were found in
the water nearby.
U.S. Coast Guard and Los Angeles County Fire Department
helicopters, along with lifeguard search boats, scoured the area
but found no one in the water.
"We combed the area last night and have done all possible drift
and wind patterns, and we haven't found anything," said Lucas
Mancini, a command duty officer with the Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard said the boat could have broken free from its
moorings and capsized in the surf with no one aboard.
The vessel, a Boston whaler, has since been righted.
It is registered to a Boy Scouts unit in Los Angeles' San
Fernando Valley. The group has been informed and officials were
searching records to find out who the owner is, Mancini said.
