Atlanta boater presumed dead in Fla.
Dinghy, footprints found on Shell Island
By Christian Boone
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Florida officials have called off a search for an Atlanta native missing since Sunday afternoon, an apparent victim of Tropical Storm Claudette.
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Terry Barner,The News Herald/AP The 36-foot-long Morning Star sits empty in St. Andrew Bay along the Gulf of Mexico near Panama City, Fla., while a U.S. Coast Guard boat guards the scene on Monday.
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Terry Barner, The News Herald, Pa/AP Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Lt. Jay Chesser talks on a cellular phone on Monday with acquaintances of a Georgia man who is presumed dead after he left this 36-foot sailboat when it ran aground Sunday during the height of Tropical Storm Claudette.
Donald Hoyt said his son, Cambren Hoyt, 45, is presumed dead. ?He died trying to save others,? said the elder Hoyt, of Atlanta.
