September 4, 2017 — GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard suspended their search Saturday for two North Carolina boaters who have been missing since August 27 after they failed to return from a fishing trip off the coast of Oak Island.
The Coast Guard found a fishing boat belonging to the boaters on Friday, but could not locate them.
The Gaston Gazette reports the boaters were Gaston County residents Steve Chaney and David Hambrick. Their 22-foot fishing boat was found 15 miles east of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, hours after the Coast Guard announced the search had expanded south.
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