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The U.S. Coast Guard is asking members of the public to help identify the source of a debris field, which included this large portion of a vessel, spotted Sunday in the Atlantic Ocean about 22 miles east of Jacksonville.
The U.S. Coast Guard is trying to figure out what happened to a deceased man found floating in the Atlantic Ocean Sunday near the wreckage of a boat about 22 miles east of Jacksonville, Fla., according to authorities.
The search for potential survivors continued Monday, with Coast Guard boats on the scene gathering evidence and looking for other people who may have been on the boat, said Lt. Grant Johnson, a Coast Guard public affairs officer.
Investigators have not yet identified the boat and don't know where it came from or where it was headed, Johnson said.
Approximately 10 life jackets were found near the boat debris, but the Coast Guard has not found evidence that other people were on the boat.
"We're working under the assumption other people were on board," Johnson said. "We're going to err on the side of safety. With the lack of evidence we're inclined to continue searching until we know otherwise."
The Coast Guard found the man's passport and believe he is a 49-year-old who last lived in Miami, according to Johnson. His body was recovered and taken to the medical examiner's office in Jacksonville, Johnson said.
Officials declined to identify the man pending notification of his family. The Coast Guard is working with local law enforcement to find his family and figure out what may have happened to the boat.
The Coast Guard did not receive a distress call related to the vessel, two large pieces of which were found near the body, Johnson said.
The wreckage was first spotted around 6 p.m. Sunday evening by an aircrew from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
The Coast Guard searched through the night for survivors, with boats and aircraft involved in the operation. Bad weather in the Jacksonville area prevented Coast Guard aircraft from searching the debris field this morning, but three boats remained on the scene looking for survivors and gathering evidence, Johnson said.
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That cop killer cop from LA still hiding his tracks...
What, no epirb or AIS?
he was smuggling drugs or people on a old boat that never been kept up and broke apart.
Ban watercraft...they kill people
This vessel was rammed by something huge...tanker or the like...
Check all the LARGER ships for skid marks. They obviously did not see each other. Regardless of what they were or were not up to, this more than most likely was an accident. Ships/boats without lights are never a good thing. My bet is the smaller one may have been running w/o lights. WHY? Find the rest of the ship and you have your answer.
Most likely a collision at night with a large cargo ship.
This has become a common strategy in Florida and New York for rich fraudulent financiers to flee the country or to disappear by setting up an elaborate appearance of an accident or suicide: a hoax generally.
Coast Guards and the FBI need to get alert on this matter. And sometimes greedy families participate in this to help their loved rich ones evade the law. Put them all in jail!
It is like Madoff family claiming they did not know anything...while enjoying the riches of their corrupt husband or father (like Hitler's girl friend, wife and mistress...claiming innocence while enjoying all the fur and pearls Hitler gave her after stealing it from the Jews). How different is all this?
And all our stupid police can do is go after a few silly desperate drug users! Are you kidding me?
This is too much Dr. MS....I wonder which family member "volunteered" to be dead!!??
Drug deal gone bad?
Tsunami wreckage that made it thru the Panama Canal?
wouldn't this be weird if it turned out to be the 4 people and boat missing off the coast near San Francisco. just saying.
It looks like the work of SPECTRE to me.
Book'm Dano! F_ck you Steve I'm sick of you push'n me around, you get off your lazy a_s and do it yourself I've got some dope to burn. Stay tuned folks!
Obama Administration is speculating that a You Tube video caused this.
More likely, than not, run over by a large ship, in the dark. Ship captain would probably not know the ship had hit anything, and the boat captain wouldn't have time to put out an SOS. Thats the opinion of this retired sea captain, anyway.
I can't believe that sharks didn't get the body....can't get anyone to work in this country.
Isnt this how a movie called Clear and Present Danger started
Looks like a collision with a steel hull!
Captain Nemo strikes again! Or maybe it was the Kraken. As the old saying goes: Here there be Monsters!
I'm gonna BET that this is stage 7.5z of "MethWorld". Where meth labs started in homes and graduated to RV's and UHAULS, people in Florida are taking it to the NEXT and probably BEST LEVEL..FLOATING Meth Labs!!! this one exploded. I applaud the entrepreneurial spirit!
Should find the OTHER boat/ship
Al Qaeda
Someone released the Kracken...
Collision most likely but with the info we have, who knows. I think I read on another site that the passport was not a US passport and they were having trouble tracking down family of the deceased.
Too bad it wasent the moron in the white house.
You do know the pharmaceutical companies have drugs to help your condition Hap !!!