PORT ARANSAS, Texas – Update (Noon, Monday): A man’s body was recovered Monday morning in the Corpus Christi Ship Channel, not far from where two boats collided over the weekend. One man was missing after the wreck.
KIII-TV and KRIS-TV reported that his body was discovered by a game warden.
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It’s unclear if the man found dead is the same man who was missing after a recreational fishing boat he was riding in collided with a commercial tanker.
The crash happened at 5:30 a.m. Saturday at the Aransas Pass and Lydia Ann Channel intersection. Crews searched for the man on Saturday and suspended their search on Sunday morning.
Original (12:35 p.m. Sunday): One man is dead and another is missing after a recreational fishing boat collided with a commercial tanker Saturday near Port Aransas.
The crash happened just before 5:30 a.m. at the Aransas Pass and Lydia Ann Channel intersection, not far from the ferry, according to U.S. Coast Guard Heartland and media reports.
U.S. Coast Guard Captain Torrey Bertheau told KIIITV that crews arrived and pulled three men out of the water.
One man was pronounced dead and two were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
The search for a fourth man continued Saturday but concluded on Sunday morning, according to the Port Aransas South Jetty.
The names of the man who died and the man missing have not been released.
Bertheau said the cause of the crash was under investigation.