The US Coast Guard in San Diego has ended its search for missing migrants after two smuggling boats capsized off California’s coast over the weekend, leaving eight people dead
in what one official called “one of the worst maritime smuggling tragedies” the city has seen. The two boats overturned around 11:30 p.m. Saturday near the shore of San Diego County’s Black’s Beach. Authorities were alerted by a woman on one of the boats who called 911, according to Chief James Gartland, lifeguard chief for the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. Responding lifeguards arrived “in rescue mode,” Gartland said.
It’s unclear what caused the two panga boats, a type of small motorized fishing vessel, to capsize, but Gartland pointed out conditions that night were pitch black and foggy. The vessels also overturned in a “very hazardous area” where inshore holes and rip currents could easily pull people out to sea, he said. “This is one of the worst maritime smuggling tragedies that I can think of in California.
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