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The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday suspended its response to a boat suspected of being used in a human smuggling operation that capsized and broke apart in powerful surf along the rocky San Diego coast, killing three people and injuring more than two dozen others.
The search lasted through the night led by the Coast Guard Cutter Haddock and its crew. Officials on Sunday originally said four people aboard the boat had died, but the Coast Guard on Monday changed the number to three, citing information from the San Diego County Medical Examiner s office, according to Reuters. A total of 29 survived, according to authorities
UPDATE: Coast Guard suspends response to overturned boat near Point Loma
SAN DIEGO The Coast Guard suspended its response Monday morning to an overturned boat near the Point Loma Tide Pools in the Cabrillo National Monument.
The Coast Guard Cutter Haddock crew relieved the Blackfin and remained on scene through the night to continue searching for survivors from the capsized, 40-foot trawler-style boat while the Coast Guard and partner agencies worked to verify the number of people aboard.
Thirty-two people have been accounted for. Twenty-nine people are alive, of which, five were taken to the hospital with one of the five remaining in critical condition and three people were declared deceased by the San Diego County medical examiner.
At first some thought it was a fishing boat coming close to the shoreline.
It wasn’t until the boat had splintered into pieces off Point Loma Sunday morning that they realized the magnitude of the catastrophe: There were more than two dozen passengers packed onto that 40-foot, trawler-style boat, which was fighting the waves, wind and rocks and losing.
For the record:
10:47 AM, May. 04, 2021Information from authorities incorrectly indicated four people were killed. Three people died.
A suspected human smuggling attempt had turned deadly at the Cabrillo National Monument tide pools. Several witnesses were among the first rescuers; they jumped into the choppy ocean and swam out to passengers, many struggling to swim.