More than 12 hours after going missing, a man who had fallen off a personal watercraft near Long Beach was rescued 2½ miles off the coast.

Paul Anthony Carbullido Jr., 53, was discovered floating in the ocean just after 10:45 a.m. Monday, Aug. 17, Coast Guard Petty Officer Adam Stanton said.

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Carbullido, wearing a neon-green life jacket, was motionless as the rescuers’ helicopter approached but then began moving his legs, and a rescuer was lowered to pluck him from the water.

A spokesman for the Coast Guard said Carbullido was conscious and suffering from hypothermia. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.

Carbullido had been among a group of people on rented personal watercraft off Long Beach on Sunday when he and a woman both ended up in the water, Long Beach Fire Department Capt. Jack Crabtree said.

Firefighters and police were called to the area around 10 p.m. Sunday, Crabtree said, and the two agencies, along with the Coast Guard, sent out vessels and helicopters to start the search.

About a half-hour later, someone on a boat heard a woman screaming for help near the break wall, Crabtree said. The skipper helped pinpoint the search and lifeguards got in the water, swam to her and helped get her onto a fireboat.

The woman told authorities that she and Carbullido had departed from Long Beach’s Rainbow Harbor, near the Queen Mary. While operating the watercraft outside the break wall, Carbullido fell into the water.

The woman got into the water in a failed attempt to help Carbullido, and then couldn’t restart her watercraft, the Coast Guard reported. She said she swam for about an hour before reaching the break wall.

The break wall is made of large rocks, running parallel to the coast and roughly 2 to 3 miles out into the ocean.

First responders found the two watercraft outside the break wall at about 1:15 and at 1:45 a.m., Crabtree said.

Four LBFD fire boats, some Los Angeles police boats, a U.S. coast Guard vessel and a Coast Guard helicopter searched for Carbullido through the night, and the Coast Guard took the lead on the search shortly before daybreak.

City News Service contributed to this report.