Three people stranded on sailboat near Chesapeake Bay, Hampton VA
Missing PersonEmergency crews are searching Chesapeake Bay area for a white sailboat with three people on board. The sailboat has lost its motor and is anchored near the bay. Callers are in contact via a disconnected cell phone, and responders are trying to locate the exact position through phone pinging and visual searches. Multiple units are coordinating the search near Langley Marina and Gouselhock Park.
Audio|Source: Hampton Fire and Rescue
06:49
Transcript:
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Engine 7 arriving on scene at the BNX track.
00:05
Engine 7.
00:10
Okay, one, two, engine seven. Do you have a visual on that vessel?
00:18
We're walking out to the point right now. I'm trying to decipher the nose place behind the BMX track.
00:24
We're walking there now.
00:28
Hands in the engine seven. Go to the boat ramp and look north up towards the point.
00:34
I'm pulling up at the ramp now.
00:42
Talby, we're out here at the track.
00:44
We'll have there, walking they will look back down, check.
00:47
All right, Cours on scene.
00:49
Hansen to Engine 7.
00:50
Okay, Hand to the Shovertalion 1 on scene. We're establishing gausels command.
00:55
Medicaid.
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Design 1 command.
00:58
Medicaid,
00:59
Medicaid, you're responding for a two-year-old that's fallen,
01:04
impossible broken wrong. I was with the complainant who called in. They're not advising that they're near the boat ran. They just say that that's the closest thing that they can see. Landmark line. All units en route in one scene, Gossal Hope Park for the boat call, TAC1 is assigned and monitored.
01:25
T4 to Hampton. Q4. C4.
01:30
I'm on the complaint, I don't want you to go back in the room. Hapton 2-Liter 4, EMS 1, nutty 2.
01:39
05, underway. Oh, yes, on senior, 10-4.
01:42
Okay, 10-4, you've been one seen 30 minutes.
01:48
Thank you. Thank you.
01:53
The command.
01:57
Go ahead.
02:00
Ladder 4. Hold off on that. We're trying to locate the vessel first.
02:08
For Careplex, OMD.
02:10
Mark, I'm correction for Careless, MD.
02:13
7. Section 7 to 21.
02:18
Guzzles, command, go ahead.
02:23
We've walked from the BMX track about 200 yards towards your location along the waterline. Nothing seen visually.
02:30
Anything down that way that you can see? Mediades arrived.
02:35
Negative. Not a gate. The notes say they were in this body of water.
02:40
There's going to be a white sailboat that's anchored.
02:43
Can you see south of my location deeper in towards Littleback?
02:52
Yeah, 10-4, we're looking your way,
02:56
looking towards your way. We're going to walk back out at the point.
03:00
Let's see if we can't see anything further out here.
03:05
Okay.
03:07
Come in, engine, too.
03:12
Engine, too.
03:16
Yeah, let me know when...
03:18
You're heading this way with the Zodiac.
03:22
We may have to launch you guys due to the shallow water here.
03:27
I'm clear.
03:30
7 Alpha to 7 Delta. You can hold your location for a minute.
03:47
Gossils command, go ahead.
03:50
Callers now advising that they are closer towards the Chesapeake Bay side.
03:58
Okay,
04:00
are they contacting you via cell?
04:03
Ten-four, they're contacting via cell phone with a disconnected phone number.
04:08
Okay, are you able to ping that?
04:13
Ten-four, stand by.
04:16
Yeah, ping that and put the coordinates over the air and in the notes too, please.
04:32
Lieutenant, we've checked the waterway at Gosnels and we don't see anything.
04:38
The update is they're closer to the Tuspeake Bay.
04:41
So keep your eyes open.
04:44
Apparently it's a sailboat that has lost their motor.
04:47
It's going to be par three and they should be anchored.
04:51
We're trying to get a location from a phone ping.
05:00
Okay, yeah, we copy all that.
05:02
All right, 7 Alpha, the Gossel's command.
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Go ahead.
05:14
Go on the point,
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good visual out over the water towards NASA and all out that way. Nothing in back river,
05:21
nothing towards NASA.
05:23
Everything's clear from our vantage point out on the point on here.
05:26
Nothing seen.
05:30
Okay.
05:36
I hear rescue goal command.
05:42
Okay, what is the unit calling command?
05:47
Hi, here, rescue, go, command. We're preparing to launch right now from Langley Marina.
05:53
Okay, what is the size and draft of your vessel?
06:01
Maybe 20 foot, about two and a half, three foot draft.
06:08
Okay,
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if you could check the area immediately around your base,
06:14
up to Gouselhock Park, and then start working east towards factory point. It's going to be a white sailboat where the motor has fallen off and they should be entered and there should be three souls on board.
06:30
Medic 4.
06:33
Copy. Do you have a property of the size of the sailboat?
06:38
Same, I'm checking our notes.
06:40
Battalion 1 should be a 30 foot.
06:47
Okay, Langley should be a 30 foot.
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