Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Coast Guard ending search tonight

The search for Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper, NFL free agent Corey Smith and former college football player William Bleakley is to be called off tonight after unsucessful eforts in finding them. Nick Schuyler, was found alive and sitting atop an overturned boat about 40 miles west of Florida's Gulf Coast on Monday afternoon. He is the only man out of the four that went on a fishing trip together that has been found. Schuyler, who, like Bleakley, was a former University of South Florida football player, told his Coast Guard rescuers that the boat they were in was anchored Saturday evening when waves overturned it. Schuyler told rescuers that all four men clung to the boat for a time but then became separated. Schuyler says that he last saw his three friends at 2 a.m. Monday and says that him and the three others were all wearing life vests. After days of searching and about 24,000 square miles of ocean scanned, the search is scheduled to be called off at sundown Tuesday, or around 6:30 p.m. ET.

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