Teens missing off FL coast

[Flying Pig]

Is CAP involved in the search for the two missing teens off the Florida coast?   I believe last I heard the CG suspended the search.

[A.Member]

Don't know but I highly doubt it.  Their boat was found well over 60 miles offshore.  That's far beyond our allowed search range.

[Flying Pig]

Ahhh copy.  I didnt realize their boat had been located.  I haven't really been following it.  Ive had a few calls at the hangar asking if we are involved in the search.  Its on the other side of the state and we don't conduct over water SAR either with a Huey.  You don't get very far on 1.5hrs of gas.  The first I had heard about it someone called the hangar a few days ago and asked if we were searching for the missing kids off the coast.  I said No but told them I would check on it.   I called dispatch.  After a few minutes we figured out they were talking about a search a couple hundred miles away.  Funny how people watch TV or social media and think EVERYTHING is happening in their home town.

[PHall]

Boat was found capsized, but undamaged, 60 plus miles off the coast on the second day of the search.

[Flying Pig]

I read that.  On a couple of helicopter oriented FB pages the family is making pleas for pilots in NC and SC to volunteer their time and aircraft to search the ocean.  Its a sad deal.  They didnt leave for their short trip with any sort of survival supplies.  They left out of S. FL, boat was found further north around central FL.   

I read the Navy and the Coast Guard has suspended all operations related to the SAR.

[RRLE]

The CG located the boat but didn't retrieve it - as they put it, they protect lives not property. They lowered a rescue diver to the boat and checked it out and verified it was the missing boat. Today when as salvage firm went to pick-up the boat in the open seas, it couldn't be found either.

[TheSkyHornet]

I believe they called the USCG Aux anyway, which is extremely popular as an extra set of hands for the coastal areas and waterways