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A boating accident off the coast of California, near Vandenberg Air Force Base, has left one man dead and another missing. According to a spokesperson from the military base a surfer at the north end of the base near Minuteman Beach found a third member of the boating party, a young man, walking along the beach Tuesday morning.
The man, later identified as 19 year old Andrew Schoneman, refused medical treatment and claimed that he did not remember what happened when the crash happened. He had spent the night on the beach after the boat he was in crashed and did not appear to be injured.
Officials believe that the accident happened when the 40-foot recreational boat called “Scarlet Begonia” ran aground the previous evening near Purisima Point, possibly after the boat hit rocks or a reef. The back end of the vessel was torn off in the accident.
The ship washed up on shore and the body of a man, later found to be Kerry Moore, 55, was found on Minuteman Beach. The man’s 17 year old son, Dylan Moore, is still missing. According to the Coast Guard 31 nautical miles of ocean and miles of coastline were searched before the air and sea search mission was called off.
The Moores were from Laytonville in Northern California. They had hired Schoneman as a deck hand in Santa Barbara, and were on their way to Morro Bay and then San Francisco. Two special investigators from the Coast Guard’s marine safety detachment in Santa Barbara are investigating the cause of the accident.
