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<\/p>\nThe U.S. Coast Guard said it would search for the missing three boaters throughout the night, after the boat carrying 20 individuals sank off the coast of Alcatraz Island.\n<\/p>\n
Jul 14, 2026<\/p>\n
Updated 11:00 pm PT<\/p>\n
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Jet skis patrol the water near Alcatraz looking for three missing individuals after a pontoon boat capsized on July 14, 2026 in San Francisco, California. 16 people were rescued and one death has been reported. \u00a0(Heather Diehl\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
One person is dead and three people remain missing after a boat carrying 20 passengers sank in the San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz Island Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Officials from the U.S. Coast Guard and San Francisco Fire Department said Tuesday night that search and rescue teams would continue to lookfor the missing mariners throughout the night.<\/p>\n
Three passengers were injured and transported to local hospitals and are in stable condition, according to SFFD Chief Dean Crispen. SFFD confirmed one dog also died in the sinking.<\/p>\n
At 3:37 p.m., the SFFD received a report of a vessel in distress or on fire approximately 600 yards off of Alcatraz Island, Crispen said.<\/p>\n
Crispen said officers with San Francisco Police Department\u2019s Marine Unit were the first on the scene, and saw a man in the water in \u201csevere distress.\u201d Crispen said the SFPD placed him in their boat, initiated CPR, but upon transporting him to Gas House Cove in the Marina District, the man was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n
Crispen said the vessel left from the St. Francis Yacht Club, but despite initial reports the San Francisco Fire Departments did not see evidence of a fire.<\/p>\n
Lieutenant Mariano Elias, public information officer for the SFFD, described the vessel as a 50-foot \u201ccabin cruiser\u201d pontoon boat roughly 50-feet long and three stories in height. He said the vessel\u2019s name was Volare and the boat was based out of Stockton.<\/p>\n
People were jumping in the water when rescuers arrived and the boat was already mostly under water, Elias said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reports we\u2019ve had from witnesses is that there were rough seas, and apparently the vessel began to take on water and was turned over in the bay,\u201d Crispen said.<\/p>\n
Crispen said the passengers were mostly made up of family members, and that he believed they were participating in \u201csome kind of memorial service\u201d when they were hit by a wave, took on water and the boat capsized.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Coast Guard is leading search and rescue efforts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aWe have modeling software that predicts the location of where our missing mariners could be. We use that very strictly to provide assets, and throughout the night we will have surface and air assets providing coverage,\u201d said U.S. Coast Guard Lieutenant John Corvino.<\/p>\n
Officials initially reported the boat had 19 passengers, but after talking to witnesses, determined there were 20 people on board the boat.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The SFFD planned to give an update on the missing persons at 6 a.m. Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Coast Guard said it would search for the missing three boaters throughout the night, after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-399039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}