Coast guard crews continued searching Sunday for five people missing in the water after recovering two bodies following a powerful storm that capsized several sailboats participating in a regatta near Mobile Bay, Alabama.
One body was discovered Saturday and another was found on Sunday morning, major Steve Thompson, director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety’s Marine Patrol Division, said at a press conference in Dauphin Island....
More than 100 sailboats and as many as 200 people were participating in the Dauphin Island regatta in Mobile Bay. Officials on Sunday said not all of the missing people were participating in the race....
The conditions were similar early Saturday, according to tourists Joe B Stuard and Andrea Stuard of Wilmer, Alabama, who were watching the search and rescue boats from shore. They were riding their bikes on Dauphin Island as the storm blew through around 4pm.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/26/alabama-storm-sailboats-regatta-dauphin-island
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