Missing kayaker found dead in California bay after going crabbing with friends, sheriff says

A lacking kayaker in California has been discovered useless days after he disappeared throughout a crabbing journey with mates, authorities mentioned Thursday.

Clinton Yoshio Koga, 39, was recovered Wednesday by California Restoration Divers, a volunteer aquatic search group, about 100 yards from the shore of Lawson’s Touchdown, the place he had gone fishing with mates on Tomales Bay, the Marin County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned.

Koga had gone out alone onto the bay at round 6:10 p.m. on Jan. 27 to retrieve a crabbing cage. Lower than 20 minutes later, a pal seen that he couldn’t see Koga’s kayak from the shore, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned. 

The pal reported Koga’s disappearance to the sheriff’s workplace whereas his different mates searched the bay waters for any indicators of their lacking pal.

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The Marin County Hearth Division, the Marin County dive staff, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Workplace helicopter, and the U.S. Coast Guard assisted within the seek for Koga, which officers described as “intensive.”

Nonetheless, Koga was not discovered regardless of in depth effort and the search was suspended.

The volunteer dive group had been looking out Tomales Bay for the lacking kayaker.
(California Restoration Divers)

5 days after the search started, the volunteer dive staff situated Koga round 4:15 p.m., the sheriff’s workplace mentioned. Koga was dropped at the Lawson’s Touchdown Campground, the place his demise was confirmed by paramedics.

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“Tough work in tidal present,” California Restoration Divers mentioned in a Fb put up. “Many due to our volunteers for bringing Clinton dwelling.”

Tomales Bay is seen from Tom’s Level in Tomales Bay, Calif., on August 29, 2019.
(Yalonda M. James/The San Francisco Chronicle through Getty Pictures, File)

The trigger and method of demise are pending the conclusion of investigations, together with a forensic postmortem examination with routine toxicology testing.

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Koga, who was from Brentwood, California, was remembered by mates on social media.

“I could not catch a soccer value a rattling rising up however you at all times stored throwing it my approach,” pal Rudy Carranza mentioned, in response to FOX2 KTVU. “I’ll at all times miss you and I’ll attempt to decide up the items and simply hold going.”