Searchers utilizing sonar gear suspended their efforts for the day late Tuesday afternoon with no success discovering a person who has been lacking since his canoe capsized on Sunday.
The Missouri Freeway Patrol’s Cpl. Dallas Thompson stated crews carried out a grid search on the Missouri River between the Weldon Spring boat launch in St. Charles County and the Howell Island Conservation Space. They’ll resume the search on Wednesday, Thompson stated.
Two males have been in a canoe that capsized about 8:15 p.m. Sunday round Howell Island, close to Chesterfield. One man swam to shore on his personal. His buddy is lacking. Thompson stated neither man within the canoe was sporting a life jacket.
Police haven’t launched the identify of the lacking man.
The person is in his early 30s and from the Ballwin space. He has a 4-year-old daughter, stated a buddy, Andrea Voskuil. A few of his family members have been driving from Texas to assist search, however not everybody in his household is conscious that he’s lacking. His associates are spreading the phrase amongst fishing, climbing and boating teams, too, to assemble extra folks to look the riverbanks, Voskuil stated.
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The 2 males on Sunday apparently put their canoe in at Howell Island, the place there’s a low water dam with “plenty of present going throughout it,” Thompson stated. “They received caught within the present and the rapids coming throughout that dam, and that’s what brought on it to capsize.”
Authorities spent greater than an hour Sunday evening in search of the person, then spent a number of hours looking on Monday. They went up and down the banks. Thompson stated authorities have remoted their search to the realm close to Howell Island.
“They have been fairly assured, simply the way in which the present is and the eddies, the water swirling, that he’s most likely in that basic space,” Thompson stated Tuesday morning.
Thompson stated the searchers are concerned in a restoration mission at this level. A dive staff is on standby however not going into the water until sonar finds one thing that wants a more in-depth look, Thompson stated.
“The Missouri River is simply too harmful there to place divers in,” Thompson added. “Numerous undertow.”
Up to date Tuesday evening with information that the search has been suspended for the evening.