Update: Search off Alki after ferry passenger reported seeing a body

7:17 PM: We have multiple reports of a search under way off the Washington State Ferry Wenatchee, in Elliott Bay north of Alki Beach, after a report of someone overboard. The U.S. Coast Guard is helping search. The ferry was headed to Bainbridge Island.

7:26 PM: Wenatchee is continuing on to Bainbridge. No official report on the fate of the person reported overboard.

11:26 PM: More information late tonight from the community-news website Inside Bainbridge: They report the search started after someone on the Wenatchee reported seeing a body in the water. Searchers couldn’t find it, though, and IB says the USCG stopped searching about two hours ago.

3 Replies to "Update: Search off Alki after ferry passenger reported seeing a body"

  • Kit Case May 16, 2013 (7:52 pm)

    I can hear the helicopters doing a sweep. I hope for the best but fear the worst.

  • Vanessa May 17, 2013 (9:13 am)

    “I see dead people.”

    I thought.

  • Vanessa May 17, 2013 (9:16 am)

    when I am canoeing or kayaking, 99 times out of a hundred, when I see SOMETHING….it’s a stick or a log. I hope that’s what it was.

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