July 19, 2016
NEW ORLEANS -- The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a missing person in the water near Donaldsonville, Monday evening.
The search for Capt. Ambarish Parekh, 65, was suspended at 10:23 p.m. Monday after two days of searching a combined total of 223 miles from the Crescent City Connection Bridge in New Orleans to mile marker 180.
Parekh was reported to have fallen off a crew boat while transiting to another vessel. He was last seen wearing a blue shirt and long pants with a personal flotation device on the Lower Mississippi River near mile marker 179.
The Coast Guard searched with boats, helicopters and an Ascension Parish fire boat crew.