PORT ANGELES — The Coast Guard suspended the search Friday evening for a missing fisherman near Port Angeles.
75-year-old Patrick O’Brien was reported missing Thursday evening when he didn’t return from a fishing trip in the Freshwater Bay area.
Coast Guard officials say they saturated an area of approximately 164 square miles, completing 20 searches over more than 21 hours. The search was suspended at 4 p.m Friday.
O’Brien who was on a 14-foot skiff boat, and reported missing by his friend who lost sight of his fishing vessel and was overdue to return to shore.
He was supposed to be fishing near his friends in a separate boat on a trip from Freshwater Bay to Crescent Bay Buoy 2 and back to Freshwater Bay. His friends last talked to him via cell phone at 3:26 p.m. and about 10 minutes later saw him approximately a half mile west of the Crescent Bay Buoy 2 traveling westward.
(Photo of Mr. O’Brien provided by US Coast Guard)