Search for Missing Boat Captain Suspended
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The Coast Guard suspended its search for the captain of a charter fishing vessel that capsized off the South Carolina coast. Six other boaters were rescued.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. Coast Guard is conducting an extensive search for Jim Gray, a senior manager with Microsoft's Silicon Valley research organization, who failed to return from a sailboating trip Sunday off of San Francisco. The Coast Guard said Tuesday that it was continuing to search 4,000 square miles of Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and the Farallon Islands, where Gray was reportedly headed in his 40-foot sailboat Tenacious Sunday morning. He was reported missing by his wife that evening when he failed to return to their home in San Francisco as expected. Gray, 63, was hired in 1995 to run Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center, also based in San Francisco, where he researches databases and transaction processing systems, according to a biography of him on a Microsoft Web site. His particular focus is on using computers to make scientists more productive in the fields of astronomy, geography, hydrology, oceanography, biology, and health care, the site explains. Gray, who has also worked at such technology companies as IBM, Tandem Computers, and Digital Equipment, won the ACM Turing Award in 1998 for his work on transaction processing. The Coast Guard said it has deployed a C-130 fixed-wing aircraft, an HH-65 Dolphin helicopter, three 87-foot coastal patrol boats, and other equipment to continue the search. It has been assisted by the Alameda County (California) Sheriff's Office. No signs of Gray or the vessel have been found, the Coast Guard said. The phone at the eScience Group's office went unanswered when IDG News Service called for comment.
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By Liz Fabian, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Jun. 14--The search for a missing boater on Lake Sinclair is hampered by a number of factors including the depth, clarity and temperature of the water.
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A Finnish commuter ferry captain has been suspended after crashing into a pier because he forgot to turn off the autopilot -- for the second time in three days.
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An air and sea search fails to find any trace of an angler missing off the Dorset coast since the early hours.
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The search for the daughter of hockey great Bob Gainey was suspended Monday night, three days after she was washed overboard in the Atlantic during a storm while working on a sailing ship bound for the Caribbean.
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A retired couple who had been living on a boat along the Southern California coast have been missing for weeks, and police are trying to determine if the disappearance is related to a man who recently bought their cabin cruiser.
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By Jennifer Leahy, Houston Chronicle  Jun. 18--The body of a woman was found Sunday night and the search for her husband continued after the couple's fishing boat was found on the shore with the motor still running Sunday afternoon.
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The search for two people last seen on a makeshift raft in the sea near Hastings pier is called off for the night.
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A second search operation continues for the skipper of a fishing vessel, missing off the Dorset coast.
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A FINNISH ferry captain has been suspended after crashing into a pier because he forgot to turn off the auto-pilot - for the second time in three days.
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A renewed search for clues about a woman and her 15-year-old granddaughter missing for three weeks came up empty for a second day Thursday along waterways near Kinston, authorities said.
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The Coast Guard on Friday suspended its search for six boaters and said it was investigating the distress calls about their small craft taking on water as a possible hoax.
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A controversial plan to hunt endangered humpback whales has been suspended, a top Japan official says.
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A second major search and rescue operation in two days is under way off the Dorset coast for the skipper of a missing fishing vessel.
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A major search is launched for a 13-year-old canoeist who has gone missing in the sea off the Isle of Lewis.
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Computing pioneer lost Coastguards in northern California are planning to call off the search for missing Microsoft researcher Jim Gray early on Thursday. He went missing on a sailing trip off San Francisco Bay on Sunday.â¦