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Search suspended for seaman from Rancho Cordova missing in Eastern Pacific Ocean
U.S. Coast Guard officials say the search for a missing crew member from the cutter Waesche has been suspended.
Coast Guard calls off search for a member from Rancho Cordova
Seaman Bryan K. Lee, 23, was reported unaccounted for on Feb. 4 while Coast Guard Cutter Waesche was operating in the eastern Pacific. The cutter had been involved in a routine counter-drug patrol about 300 nautical miles off the southern coast of Mexico at the time, according to the Coast Guard.
Coast Guard suspends search for crew member missing in Eastern Pacific
The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search for Seaman Bryan K. Lee “pending the development of new information,” the service said.
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