If you were out walking the Carlsbad seawall this afternoon and saw the Coast Guard helicopter, cutter, and a U.S. Navy hovercraft from Camp Pendleton searching the ocean between Off Shore and the Oceanside Pier it was because they were looking for a personal water craft rider thought to be a male under 20 who disappeared after crashing head on into another personal water craft, according to the San Diego Union Tribune.
An Oceanside resident on his lunch break was also surfing nearby and paddled over to investigate what appeared to be a swimmer in distress. . . . He said the victim was “grayish-blue,” but he was able to talk. . . . “The guy said he ran into his brother,” said the surfer, who declined to give his name. . . . The surfer towed the injured man to shore.
Neither rider was wearing a life jacket, as required by law. The victim who was brought to shore was “hospitalized with head and neck injuries, said Oceanside lifeguard Capt. Bill Curtis.”
Most of the intense rescue effort was suspended by nightfall, with no sign of the missing young man, believed to be under 20 years old. . . .Helicopters were expected to continue the search into the night, when they can use infrared cameras to sense heat on the surface of the water.
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune]
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