{"id":74899,"date":"2016-05-01T19:13:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T23:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=74899"},"modified":"2016-05-01T19:13:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T23:13:44","slug":"coast-guard-ends-search-for-man-missing-at-sea-off-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/coast-guard-ends-search-for-man-missing-at-sea-off-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard Ends Search For Man Missing at Sea off Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.\u2014 The Coast Guard suspended the search for the missing North Port boater, in Charlotte Harbor, Florida, Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>During the last 48 hours <a href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/coast-guard-airlifts-28-year-old-from-cruise-ship-260-miles-south-of-san-diego\/\">the Coast Guard<\/a> completed 23 separate searches for Jim Winkler, 62. The searches totaled 1,686 miles within an area of 779 square miles in Charlotte Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our hearts, thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of Mr. Winkler,&#8221; said Capt. Gregory Case, Commander Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg. &#8221; Suspending a case is never an easy decision to make.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At 12:15 a.m. Friday, watchstanders from Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg received a 911 transfer call from Charlotte County Sheriff&#8217;s Office from a woman stating her husband, Winkler had left the El Jobean boat ramp in the Myakka River at around 2 p.m. on a 20-foot flats boat and had not returned. She reported Winkler never fished passed 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Watchstanders confirmed Winkler&#8217;s last cell phone ping was at 7:01 p.m. just south of Cape Haze, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter air crew from Air Station Clearwater, Florida, and a 29-foot Response<br \/>\nBoat Small II from Station Fort Myers Beach, Florida, were launched to commence the search after activating the Maritime Emergency Response Team in the area.<\/p>\n<p>At 4:46 a.m. Friday, the Jayhawk helicopter crew found the flats boat near Jug Creek without Winkler aboard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ChVPjYRW0AE-nZH.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74900\" src=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ChVPjYRW0AE-nZH.jpg\" alt=\"ChVPjYRW0AE-nZH\" width=\"600\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ChVPjYRW0AE-nZH.jpg 600w, https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ChVPjYRW0AE-nZH-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ChVPjYRW0AE-nZH-310x420.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crewmembers from the Coast Guard Cutter Alligator, homeported in St. Petersburg, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Charlotte Harbor Marine Unit, and Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office aided in the search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.\u2014 The Coast Guard suspended the search for the missing North Port boater, in Charlotte Harbor, Florida, Saturday. During the last 48 hours the Coast Guard completed 23 separate searches for Jim Winkler, 62. The searches totaled 1,686 miles within an area of 779 square miles in Charlotte Harbor. &#8220;Our hearts, thoughts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":74900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Coast Guard Ends Search For Man Missing at Sea off Florida - Breaking911<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/coast-guard-ends-search-for-man-missing-at-sea-off-florida\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coast Guard Ends Search For Man Missing at Sea off Florida - Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ST. 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