{"id":1336,"date":"2007-10-10T18:36:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T01:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2007-10-11T07:33:32","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T14:33:32","slug":"coast-guard-searches-for-missing-pwc-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1336","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard Searches for Missing PWC Rider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/rescue280.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/rescue280.jpg','popup','width=280,height=195,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/rescue280-tm.jpg\" height=\"139\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Rescue280\" \/><\/a>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 <strong>Off Shore<\/strong> 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 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20071010-1813-bn10rescue.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 &#8220;grayish-blue,&#8221; but he was able to talk. . . . &#8220;The guy said he ran into his brother,&#8221; said the surfer, who declined to give his name. . . . The surfer towed the injured man to shore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Neither rider was wearing a life jacket, as required by law. The victim who was brought to shore was &#8220;hospitalized with head and neck injuries, said Oceanside lifeguard Capt. <strong>Bill Curtis<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20071010-1813-bn10rescue.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}