PORT CLINTON, Ohio (AP) — A state agency says it had to
postpone a planned search in western Lake Erie for two boaters who
disappeared days ago with two others whose bodies have been recovered.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources plans to try again Sunday.
Spokesman
Matt Eiselstein says Saturday’s strong winds and high
waves weren’t conducive to searching for the missing men, who are
presumed dead. Authorities don’t think they could have survived days in
frigid waters.
The Ottawa County sheriff and U.S. Coast Guard have ended earlier search efforts.
Searchers
found a partially submerged boat Thursday on a reef near the
Davis-Besse nuclear power plant east of Toledo. They later spotted
bodies of two females, since identified as 33-year-old Amy Santus of
Perrysburg and 16-year-old Paige Widmer of Leesville, South Carolina.
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