Coast Guard, Beaufort County Emergency Management Agency search for missing couple in Pamlico River, NC

U.S. Coast Guard sent this bulletin at 08/18/2018 01:16 PM EDT

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Coast Guard, Beaufort County Emergency Management Agency search for missing couple in Pamlico River, NC

This is a graphic of the combined search patterns Coast Guard surface and aircrews conducted August 17 through August 18, 2018, to search for two missing persons in the vicinity of Pamlico River, North Carolina. Coast Guard Sector North Carolina directed the launch of a Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew, a fixed-wing Coast Guard Auxiliary aircrew, and Station Hobucken’s 45-foot Response Boat—Medium boatcrew, along with a 24-foot SPC-SW, boatcrew. (US Coast Guard Graphic)

WILMINGTON, NC — Coast Guard crews, along with the Beaufort County Emergency Management Agency, are searching by air, sea and land for a missing man and woman, whom were last seen departing Potters Marine early Friday afternoon.

The missing persons are a 72-year-old female and a 70-year-old male.

Coast Guard Station Hobucken received a call from a nearby resident at about 6:40 p.m., reporting an unmanned and adrift 20-foot vessel in the vicinity of Pamlico River.

The Sector North Carolina command center launched an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew from Air Station Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and Station Hobucken launched a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium, along with a 24-foot shallow water vessel. Multiple Coast Guard assets remained overnight to search the area. The Coast Guard Auxiliary conducted a first-light search Saturday morning.

Beaufort County stood up an Incident Command Post to manage county response.  The Incident Commander launched multiple assets, including two shoreline search parties and nine marine assets, who conducted searches throughout Friday night and Saturday morning.

If anyone sees anything in the vicinity of the Pamlico River, it is requested that they contact the Coast Guard Sector North Carolina command center on VHF-FM channel 16, or at 910-362-4015.

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