NEW ORLEANS - On Saturday April 22 around noon, the Coast Guard began responding to a report of a capsized outboard vessel some 160 miles south of Southwest Pass, La. An HC-144 Ocean Sentry and aircrew from Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile, Ala., was sent to search for the possibility of people in the water. (Source: Coast Guard 04/22/17)
UPDATE: The Coast Guard suspended the search April 23. The HC-144 located the vessel and searched a total of about 625-square-nautical miles over 6-and-a-half hours with no signs of people in distress in the water.
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