Coast Guard ends active search for missing boaters on Lake Superior

The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday announced it has ended the active search for three boaters missing since Saturday on Lake Superior offshore from Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

"This is the most difficult decision we have to make during a search effort," Cmdr. Carolyn Moberley, of Coast Guard Sector Sault Ste. Marie, said in a news release. "Coast Guard boat crews, aircraft (and) the cutter Biscayne Bay, as well as Canadian aircraft and numerous state and local resources, have searched nonstop over an extensive portion of Lake Superior for these overdue boaters. Our very deepest condolences go out to the families of these individuals."

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