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	Commanders Post at The Warpath > Commanders Football > Locker Room Main Forum > Updated: Coast Guard Calls Off Search for Missing NFL Players PDA Updated: Coast Guard Calls Off Search for Missing NFL Players Pages : 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 skinsfan_nn 03-02-2009, 12:39 PM One of the boaters found clinging to boat. Coast Guard finds one man clinging to boat - St. Petersburg Times (http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/article980435.ece) GMScud 03-02-2009, 12:57 PM One of the boaters found clinging to boat. Coast Guard finds one man clinging to boat - St. Petersburg Times (http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/article980435.ece) Well, I'm glad one of them made it. Doesn't sound good for the other 3. What a tragedy. Damn. firstdown 03-02-2009, 12:59 PM the vhf and uhf radios i work with go a lot farther than 20 miles, but i'm not sure they're available commercial... aircraft avionics though, and the total system weight/size is pretty tiny. They can go farther but from a boat to boat or a boat to land the signal gets blocked. Now the taller the boat and the higher the antena will increase the distance. CRedskinsRule 03-02-2009, 01:07 PM COAST GUARD FINDS BOAT WITH PERSON CLINGING TO IT Posted by Mike Florio on March 2, 2009, 12:29 p.m. In the end, it might be a very good thing that the Coast Guard opted not to call off the search for the four men (and two NFL players) who went missing at sea in a 21-foot fishing boat. According to Bay News 9, the Coast Guard has found an overturned boat with a person clinging to it. Assuming that it was the same boat that was carrying Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper, Lions defensive end Corey Smith, Nick Schuyler, and William Bleakely, it is a sliver of good news amid a tragedy, because it means that three of the men have been lost. Stay tuned for more. UPDATE: The person who has been found reportedly is Nick Schuyler. 53Fan 03-02-2009, 01:28 PM Just heard it on the news. Does'nt sound good for anyone but Schuyler at this point. GMScud 03-02-2009, 01:31 PM It's even more of a shame if they weren't wearing life vests. TheSmurfs22 03-02-2009, 01:38 PM Apparently the boat has been found and one person has been found on the boat. CRedskinsRule 03-02-2009, 01:45 PM Apparently Schuyler is alive and talking to the coast guard, so maybe he will be able to help in the search. I hope they find them. tootergray34 03-02-2009, 02:24 PM man life vest or not...you'd think it'd be hard to survive floating in the water overnight wouldn't you? I'm not that experienced of a waterman myself, but I think that it would still be dangerous. I've got it on ESPN news all day here at the house. I"ll write something if I hear anything. sportscurmudgeon 03-02-2009, 02:31 PM The fact that there was only one person still clinging to the remains of the boat that went out says that it is time for a few prayers for the other passengers. Finding only one survivor with the boat is not the best of news...