Search Will Resume for Missing Boater

UPDATE: Shawn Harlan was the Good Samaritan who made the initial rescue call and pulled victims from the water. He provided this account to SpinSheet's facebook page:

"I was the person on the scene who took the 5 people aboard my sailboat, their boat sunk quickly. The initial call I made to the Coast Guard got confused, I reported 5 persons in the water just north of the bay bridge, west of the main channel but was in the middle of trying to get two kids, the young girl and boy who had drifted from the other three and seemed the most in distress. I then went back to alert the CG two were aboard and in the process of retrieving the other three. I never saw the other man. I believe he was the father of one of the boys. When I arrived, none of them were wearing PFDs. I did not witness the boat sink, but I believe they had engine troubles, then probably went to the stern of the boat, a wake swamped the stern and probably is what caused the boat to sink."

Thank you, Mr. Harlan, for your skill and service. You saved lives yesterday.

Four children and their parents were on board a 17-foot sailboat that swamped and sank near the Bay Bridge outside Annapolis on Sunday. A nearby boat rescued the woman and four children, but a 42-year old man from Upper Marlboro is still missing.
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No one was wearing a lifejacket, and the survivors said that the boat sank so quickly that there was no time to find them and put them on. The man is said to be wearing a red tee shirt.

The Maryland NRP says that the search will resume to recover the missing man. Anyone with any information should call the Coast Guard Sector Baltimore at 410-576-2525.