USCG is looking for Capt Ron Fowler of Mt Pleasant. Mitzi was found capsized offshore and we can not reach Capt Fowler. If any of you know how to reach him please get him to contact us or the USCG. Till then keep him in your prayers
Update: The Coast Guard has halted its search for a 36-year-old Mount Pleasant man whose boat was found capsized in the Atlantic Ocean earlier this week.
Ronald Fowler was last seen at noon Monday, after which he was reported missing by his girlfriend, according to authorities.
A passerby discovered his 17-foot Mitzi skiff overturned around 1:30 p.m. the next day about 16 miles east of Charleston.
The Coast Guard ended the effort to find him this morning after completing 15 search patterns over 7,324 square miles. Coast Guard helicopters, airplanes and boats complemented resources from the Charleston County Sheriffs Office and the Mount Pleasant Police Department.
Anyone with information about Fowlers disappearance should call Coast Guard Sector Charlestons command center at 740-7050.
A body found floating several miles off Charleston on Tuesday was recovered and is being examined by Charleston County authorities.
A boater found the body about 1 p.m., three miles off the Isle of Palms, and radioed the Coast Guard, a Coast Guard Sector Charlestonspokesman said. The Charleston County Sheriffs Office Marine Patrol and crews from the county Volunteer Rescue Squad,S.C. Department of Natural Resources and others responded and located the body, sheriffs office Maj, Jim Brady said.
He said the body was recovered at approximately 3:30 p.m., brought to port and handed over to the Charleston County Coroners Office.
Investigators from the county and Mount Pleasant are awaiting identification of the body, Brady said.
One possibility is that the body is that of a boater missing since last week. The Coast Guard searched last week without finding Ronald Fowler, 36, of Mount Pleasant. He was last reported seen about noon on April 23. His 17-foot Mitzi skiff was found overturned 16 miles east of Charleston on April 24.