SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard was searching off the Texas coast on Monday for six people feared missing a day after a distress call indicated a fishing boat may have been sinking in the Gulf of Mexico near Galveston, the Coast Guard said. A caller radioed on an emergency frequency on Sunday afternoon that the boat was sinking and that he and five other people on board were ...

Coast Guard suspends search off Texas for fishing boat

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard said on Tuesday it had suspended its search off the Texas coast for a fishing boat with six people aboard after a radio transmission that had reported it was sinking. An emergency radio caller said on Sunday the boat was sinking in the Gulf of Mexico near Galveston and he and the five others aboard were climbing into a life raft. After searching about ...

6 missing after fishing boat sinks in Gulf of Mexico

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6 missing after boat reported sunk in Gulf

An extensive daylong search by the U.S. Coast Guard turned up no sign of six people who had radioed that their fishing boat was sinking in the Gulf of Mexico off Galveston.