ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Two of the four men reported overdue were rescued nine miles west of Horseshoe Beach by Coast Guard and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission crews Saturday after the 21-foot boat they were aboard capsized.
Rescued were Frank Dipaula, 78, Keystone Heights, and Tom Grant, 67., who were both wearing life jackets.
Missing are Tom Morrison, 65, Jacksonville, and Glenn Harris, late seventies.
An HC-130 Hercules aircraft crew from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, spotted the capsized vessel with people in the water. FWC arrived on scene and removed Dipaula and Grant from the water, who were reported disoriented and exhausted, and transferred them to emergency medical personnel.
A Hercules and an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from the air station, crews from FWC an the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Alligator, homported in St. Petersburg, are searching for Morrison and Harris.
Weather conditions in the area are three to four-foot seas with 10 to 15 knot winds.