NASSAU COUNTY, N.Y. (1010 WINS) — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 19-year-old man who fell off a 25-foot sailboat into the waters off Centre Island and Bayville, the agency announced Tuesday.
"After over 20 hours of continuous searches covering 851 nautical sq. miles, the Coast Guard has suspended the search pending further notification," the Coast Guard wrote on Twitter.
On Wednesday, the Coast Guard confirmed that it had withdrawn all assets from the search until further notice.
Other searchers, including Nassau County police marine units, are still looking for the missing man, who was on the sailboat with an 18-year-old friend in Oyster Bay Harbor when he fell overboard around 11:30 p.m. Monday. When the 18-year-old was unable to find the missing man, he called a friend, who took another boat to assist in the search, police said.
The US Coast Guard and police reported that after 911 was called, a multiagency search ensued, involving a Coast Guard small search boat from Station Eatons Neck, helicopters from Air Station Cape Cod and Air Station Atlantic City, as well as Nassau police Marine Bureau, Emergency Services and Aviation Bureau officers, the NYPD Aviation Bureau, Oyster Bay constables, and members of the Bayville, Oyster Bay, and Centre Island fire departments.
Police have not released the identity of the missing man or that of his friend aboard the sailboat.
Last week, South Shore speedboat racer James Jaronczyk, 28, of Massapequa, was flung off his 22-foot powerboat into the Great South Bay. His body was discovered in the harbor last Thursday, more than four days after he went overboard and not far from where he was first reported missing, according to Suffolk County police.
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