Rescuers were still searching for three people missing after a boat involved in a memorial service sank in the cold, fast-moving waters of San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz Island, authorities said Wednesday.
One person was pulled from the water but later died, and 16 others were rescued Tuesday afternoon after the boat took on water and capsized, San Francisco fire chief Dean Crispen said. He said the passengers on board were mostly family members, and that a dog also died.
Witnesses reported “rough seas,” the fire chief said, with rescuers saying swells reached up to 5 feet (1.5 metres). However, marine weather conditions were not severe enough to warrant a small craft advisory.
The vessel was a 50-foot (15-metre) pleasure craft with a cabin and upper deck named Volare, said Lt. Mariano Elias, a fire department spokesperson. It was registered out of Stockton, California, which sits at the eastern edge of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
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