Coast Guard continues searching for boaters

Coast Guard continues searching for boaters

The Coast Guard continues its search tonight for three missing boaters who were expected to return from a fishing trip in the Winyah Bay are on Thursday.

Lt. Cmdr. Ryan Rhodes said a plane and boat are going to search through the night tonight for Jim Sanders, 67, Steve Sanders, 44, and Andy Murray, 34. They were last seen Thursday morning leaving aboard a 23-foot center-console fishing boat from South Island Ferry Landing near Georgetown, the Coast Guard said.

The trio had planned to return before sunset Thursday.

Rhodes said the last contact with the men was at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, and they were last seen near Belle Island. There have been no reports of distress signals from the men.

A 25-foot rescue boat crew from the Georgetown Coast Guard station, a Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin rescue helicopter crew from Charleston, and members of the state's Department of Natural Resources and Georgetown County Sheriff's Office have been assisting with the search
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