Coast Guard Ends Search For Missing Boater Near Ventura Harbor, Sheriff's Department Divers Continue Search

VENTURA (CBSLA.com) — The Coast Guard on Saturday morning ended its search for a missing boater near the Ventura Harbor entrance.

At around 8:30 p.m. on Friday, two men fell in the water after their 15-foot Boston Whaler vessel capsized near the entrance to Ventura Harbor. The boat was believed to have been capsized by a rogue wave.

One man successfully swam ashore, but another man, 60, was reported missing.

The Coast Guard launched a 45-foot Response Boat crew, with additional search and rescue personnel from the Ventura County Fire Department Dive Team and the Ventura County Sheriff's Department participating in the search.

A group of six ocean rescue swimmers performed a coordinated search where the missing man was last seen. One of the rescue swimmers was searching within the surf when he was approached and bumped by a juvenile great white shark. No rescuers were injured. All swimming personnel were removed from the search; but air operations, shore search groups, and those searching on watercraft continued.

The Coast Guard search continued on Saturday morning but was called off at about 8:30 a.m.

The Ventura County Sheriff's Office continued the search on Sunday with a search and rescue dive team, a Sheriff's office official said.