Crews call off the search for a missing person in Palm Beach State Park

WATSONVILLE (BCN) — U.S. Coast Guard officials said they called off a search tonight for a person who appeared to have gone missing this afternoon from the water off Palm Beach State Park in Watsonville.

The Coast Guard was first notified of the missing person at 4:28 p.m. at Palm Beach State Park at 2660 Beach Road, Lt. j.g. Steven Dross said.

Two people told a lifeguard that they saw a person disappear in the water, prompting the search, Palm Beach State Park Lifeguard Supervisor Eddie Rhee-Pizano said.

The two people had no relationship with the person who appeared to have drowned and no one reported to emergency officials that a family member

was missing.

The search had been called off as of about 9:10 p.m., Dross said.