UPDATE: Coast Guard suspends search for person in the water near Sabine Pass, Texas

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U.S. Coast Guard 8th District Public Affairs Detachment Texas Contact: 8th District Public Affairs Detachment Texas Office: 281-464-4810 After Hours: 832-293-1293 PA Detachment Texas online newsroom

UPDATE: Coast Guard suspends search for person in the water near Sabine Pass, Texas

HOUSTON — The Coast Guard has suspended its search Friday for a missing crewmember from the tanker vessel Sagami.

Approximately 2,823 square miles were covered over 48 hours with four aircraft and two vessels during the search.

Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders received the initial report Wednesday evening of a 27-year-old male crewmember who had fallen overboard from the Sagami while rigging an accommodation ladder. Watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast and launched a Coast Guard Station Sabine 45-foot Response Boat-Medium boat crew and a Coast Guard Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew to conduct the search.

The individual was last seen wearing an orange work flotation vest and coveralls with reflective tape. 

"The Coast Guard completed an exhaustive search using all available search and rescue assets," said Petty Officer 1st Class John McKendrick, Sector Houston-Galveston command duty officer. "Cases like these are hard and our thoughts and prayers are with this mariner's family, friends and shipmates."

Involved in the search were:

• Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston
• Coast Guard Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi
• Coast Guard Air Station Houston
• Coast Guard Station Sabine
• Coast Guard Cutter Alligator

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