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Coast Guard Searches for Missing Crewman

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The Coast Guard is searching for a crew member of a container ship who was presumed to have fallen overboard into the North Pacific Ocean.

Thirty-seven-year-old Yom Kai Bao Fang was reported missing
early Friday morning from the 685-foot Sao Paulo.

The search area is about 750 miles southwest of Alaska's Kodiak
Island.

Yom, a Chinese national, was last seen at 11:30 a.m. Thursday.
He was discovered missing after he didn't report for his shift
seven hours later and could not be found during a five-hour search
of the ship.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Charly Hengen says seas and winds were
calm and visibility was good.

A Coast Guard helicopter search crew found no sign of Yom.

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