9/3/2017 – Missing Subjects on a PWC

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, RAVEN, SVU, and WCSAR assisted PLTP and Rangers in locating two missing subjects on a PWC that had broken down on a trip from Warriors Beach to the Needles. An accompanying PWC left the two subjects to go call for help, but wind and waves pushed the subjects a number of miles toward the middle of the lake. Search teams checked the entire area around the Needles and the shoreline all the way back to Warriors without any success. One search boat decided to employ a strategy of starting at the approximate location of where they were last seen and traveling downwind. With the help of radar and Night Vision equipment, this technique worked. The subjects and PWC had drifted approximately five miles from where they were last seen. They were taken on board and the PWC was towed back to Pelican Dock.