Update: Swimmers wash ashore

NEW ORLEANS - The Coast Guard was actively searching for two missing people last seen swimming near Perdido Pass, near Orange Beach, Ala., in the late afternoon of May 24. Coast Guard Sector Mobile received a report from a 911 operator at 5:54 p.m. of three people in distress in the vicinity of Perdido Pass. Two swimmers are still missing. The third swimmer was recovered by a good Samaritan boat and later transferred to EMS. The two swimmers were last seen by the East Jetty in Perdido Pass. An Urgent Marine Information Broadcast was issued. Involved in this search are CG Station Pensacola, Fla., 45-foot response boat/crew; CG Air Station New Orleans MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew; Orange Beach Police; Baldwin County Beach Patrol; and Orange Beach Fire Department. Anyone with information regarding this case is requested to contact the CG Sector Mobile's Command Center at (251) 441-6211. (Source: Coast Guard 05/24/20) UPDATE: The bodies of two swimmers washed ashore on the morning of May 25 in Gulf Shores, Ala. They were identified as the swimmers who went missing at Orange Beach. Orange Beach Police confirmed the bodies as those of Ryan Guy, 28, and Darius Robinson, 22, both of New Orleans. The third swimmer - a 28-year-old woman from Chalmette, La. - was found floating face-down in the water near Perdido Pass around 6 p.m. Sunday. She was taken to a hospital in critical condition. (Source: WEAR-T V 05/26/20)