UPDATED: Coast Guard searching for two missing boaters after boat sinks near Cedar Key
USCG photo of wreckage.
According to a report, the boat wreckage was located about seven miles offshore from Cedar Key, FL, and the missing boaters are 33 year-old David Savoie of Crystal River, FL, and 39 year-old Michael Sedor of Inglis, FL, who departed from Blackwater Marina in Yankeetown, FL.
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U.S. Coast Guard 7th District PA Detachment Tampa Bay
St. Petersburg, Florida - Multiple Coast Guard air and surface assets and crews continue searching, Thursday, for two men who went missing after their vessel sank near Cedar Key in Levy County, Florida.
At 11:00 am on Thursday, Dec. 30, a good Samaritan notified Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg watchstanders, with the report of seeing debris and items belonging to the 31-foot vessel, Dog House.
Searches have been conducted between Cedar Key and west of Sea Horse Reef.
The Coast Guard searching crews include a Station Yankeetown 29-foot response boat, the Cutter Crocodile, an Air Station Clearwater H-60 jayhawk helicopter and an HC-130 Hercules aircraft, along with marine units from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Levy County Sheriff’s Office.