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Yerba Buena Island and Oakland Bay Bridge, California. (Photo by: Marli Miller\/UCG\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) <\/p>\n
SAN FRANCISCO – Authorities discovered a body in the San Francisco Bay near Treasure Island, police said Thursday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Body discovered in San Francisco Bay <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The body was discovered just after 1 p.m. in the water west of the island.\u00a0<\/p>\n
San Francisco police officers were conducting a sonar scan when a passing boat notified them of the body.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The person has not been identified.<\/p>\n
Officers’ discovery comes two days after a recreational boat sank in the bay near Alcatraz Island<\/a>, killing one person and leaving three others missing.<\/p>\n Authorities have not said whether the body discovered Thursday is linked to the Alcatraz boat sinking.<\/p>\n San Francisco police continued its search of the bay on Thursday via the department’s marine unit, with help from the Alameda County Volunteer Dive Team.<\/p>\n Authorities said 20 people were aboard the 40-foot pleasure craft, Volare, for a memorial service when it began sinking around 3:37 p.m. Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n A total of 16 people were rescued from the boat, one person was declared deceased and three remain missing.<\/a><\/p>\n The Coast Guard announced on Wednesday that they would suspend their search at sundown. The search was suspended at 8:30 p.m., officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Investigators believe the vessel was struck by a wave, took on water, and rolled over, throwing many passengers into the bay.<\/p>\n The vessel has not been found and is believed to be about 130 feet below the surface.\u00a0<\/p>\n Officials are still working to pinpoint its exact location.<\/p>\n This is developing, check back for updates<\/p>\n The Source: San Francisco police, prior KTVU reporting<\/p>\n San Francisco<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Yerba Buena Island and Oakland Bay Bridge, California. (Photo by: Marli Miller\/UCG\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1184,2042,100,101,103,102,104,106,105,1181],"class_list":["post-401398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-ca","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401398","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=401398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}