Coast Guard: Search for Teens Will Be Suspended at Sunset

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

OPA-LOCKA, Fla. — Jul 31, 2015, 2:40 PM ET
By MATT SEDENSKY and MARISOL MEDINA Associated Press
Associated Press

The Coast Guard will suspend its search at sunset for two teenage fishermen who've been missing for a week, officials said Friday.

However, Capt. Mark Fedor said the search would continue in the meantime and has been a "true all hands on deck effort." He said the Coast Guard took into consideration Perry Cohen's and Austin Stephanos' age, both 14, their lengthy experience on the water and their "will to live" in keeping the search going so long.

He expressed his "heartfelt condolences" and called the case "excruciating and gut-wrenching."

"I know no statistics will ease the pain," he said adding that hundreds of people searched many miles. "We were desperate to find Austin and Perry."

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/week-searching-sign-boys-lost-sea-32798662

[monmouth4]

1. I don't know either of the families but this is heart wrenching...n/t

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. Shoot.

How awful for those families.