coastguard search, Tillamook bay, 12-30-05

[C.J.D]

Anybody know why there are search boats and helicopter flying around Tillamook bay?

[Mr.Kitch'nPass]

Sounds like two guys were on the sand bar claming when thei boat floated away from them so instead of going for the boat they tried to swim for shore. One guy made it and now they are looking for the other. :depressed:

[Fishplay]

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[corrirod]

This was on the KGW website:

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Coast Guard searches for fisherman near Tillamook Bay

11:18 AM PST on Friday, December 30, 2005
Associated Press


TILLAMOOK, Ore. -- The Coast Guard is searching for a shrimp fisherman in Tillamook Bay who has been missing since Thursday night.


The missing fisherman tried to swim to shore with another man when their boat drifted off Thursday while they were out on the mud flats.


The second man was able to swim to shore near Bay City and was taken to a hospital with severe hypothermia. Neither man was wearing a life jacket.


The Coast Guard searched for the missing fisherman until 1:30 a.m., then had to call off the search because of driving rain and winds.


At dawn on Friday, a Jayhawk helicopter from Astoria left to search for the man, as well as various boats from both the Coast Guard, the Tillamook County Sheriff's Department and local boaters. Crews are also checking the shoreline from Bay City to Garibaldi.

[Norm]

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That's too bad. I'm not sure what else you could do at night stuck on the sandbar on a incomming tide without a boat.

[Arima Billy]

The guy that was lost was a very nice guy. He came down from Portland in the 80's and worked for a seafood plant that is no longer in Garibaldi, called Hoy Brothers. Later he worked for me in my plant in packaging and did a great job. The last I heard he moved back to Portland and worked there I guess he came back to the coast and was sand shrimping. Anyway I just wanted to say he was a great guy and will be missed. AB