{"id":4253,"date":"2010-11-18T08:55:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T13:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=4253"},"modified":"2010-11-18T08:55:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T13:55:47","slug":"search-ends-for-u-s-woman-lost-at-sea-in-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/11\/search-ends-for-u-s-woman-lost-at-sea-in-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Search Ends For U.S. Woman Lost At Sea In The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Coast Guard has ended its search for the 46-year-old Atlanta woman who was on a sailboat that capsized off the coast of the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Zekoll has been missing since Saturday night. The search ended about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, said Russell Tippets, chief petty officer for the 7th Coast Guard District.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After 25 hours of searching and covering more than 1,600 square miles, our search and rescue coordinators felt they had done everything possible to find this missing person,&#8221; Tippets told the AJC.<\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard used a Jayhawk helicopter, Dolphin helicopter and C-130 plane in the mission.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Bahamas Defence Force also will suspend its search Tuesday, while the Bahamas Air Sea Rescue Association &#8220;will continue aerial surveys of the vessel and area,&#8221; according to an offshore sailing group, the Cruising Rally Association.<\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s owner, Steve Black, said he was told by BASRA on Tuesday that &#8220;conditions are not favorable for finding Laura Zekoll alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Coast Guard has ended its search for the 46-year-old Atlanta woman who was on a sailboat that capsized off the coast of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}