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Two Missing Jet Skiers Recovered Off Long Beach

Investigators will probe why the riders separated from a larger group after a nightlong Coast Guard search ended with both people hospitalized.

Overview

  • Emergency calls came in late Sunday night, Aug. 16, and fishermen who heard a woman yelling helped trigger a multi-agency search led by the U.S. Coast Guard.
  • Rescuers found a woman in her 40s on the Long Beach breakwall around 10:30 p.m. and transported her to a hospital in stable condition.
  • Coast Guard air crews located two abandoned jet skis early Monday morning and then sighted the missing man roughly 2.5 miles offshore later that morning.
  • A Coast Guard rescue swimmer pulled 53-year-old Paul Anthony Carbullido from the water; he was alive but hypothermic and taken to a hospital for treatment.
  • Authorities continue to investigate how the pair became separated from their larger group and local reports noted the male rider may not have been wearing a life jacket.