U.S. Coast Guard photograph/Petty Officer 3rd Tom Atkeson (archive).
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard is searching for a person in the Mississippi River in St. James Parish, Louisiana, Wednesday.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a report at 8:22 p.m. of a missing man from the towing vessel St. Genevieve who was last seen on the vessel between mile marker 161 and 162 on the Mississippi River.
The missing man was last seen wearing a blue shirt and blue jeans.
Sector watchstanders directed the launch of an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans and a response boat crew from Coast Guard Station New Orleans to search for the man.
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