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Search called off for crewman in Sound

LONG ISLAND SOUND - The Coast Guard called off active search efforts
yesterday for a 29-year-old crewman who was working on a tug and barge from
Port Chester when he fell overboard into Long Island Sound off the
Norwalk-Westport, Conn., shore.

Crew members tried to throw him a rope after he went down at 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, but couldn't rescue him, prompting a massive search by air and sea
that continued for 20 hours.

Authorities yesterday would not identify the man, who was working on a
tugboat named Success II, owned by Concavage Marine Construction in Port
Chester. The Coast Guard was investigating the incident with Westport
police. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is also
investigating because it is considered a workplace accident.

The man fell as the tug and the barge it was pushing entered Norwalk Harbor,
south of Cockenoe Island. The boat's captain immediately notified his
company's dispatch service, which called 911. The Westport police marine
patrol and Coast Guard vessels searched the Sound through the night and into
the next day, spanning the area where he fell and the shoreline of the
nearby Norwalk Islands.

A Coast Guard helicopter and aircraft from the Nassau County police,
Connecticut State Police and the New York Air National Guard searched from
the air.

The man's relatives had been notified, the Coast Guard said. Concavage did
not return a call yesterday afternoon.