Tenacious Search

Today I spent 3 hours between Pt Reyes and Ano Nuevo between the coast and international waters in a twin engine airplane.  We ran a pattern centered between the Farallons and the Gate.  We also ran a back and forth pattern from Half Moon Bay and Ano Nuevo.  The area between Farallons and the Gate is relatively busy with fishing, cargo and some pleasure boats.  Further south things are less busy.  We are at 1000 feet and moving about 3 miles/minute. We had a few sightings of single pieces of debris.    One redish one near Stinson Beach was reported to the Coast Guard. They had already examined it. The ocean appears surprisingly clear of debris.  I expected to see more things floating around.  We spotted one sail boat under power.  Clearly not the Tenacious.

The Coast Guard was also in the area and we tried to stay away from where their patterns were.  Regradless, I think this area has been well covered.  Further searches should be farther north and south.  Or possibly further out in the ocean.  It is hard to believe that there is anything missed in the area outside the gate.  There is much traffic there.

Elevated from the comments, from Frew:

Raft search field, from the USCG:

The most recent CASP data indicates the highest probability of location of a raft is bounded by the following coordinates:

37 59.859N 123 29.705W
37 59.859N 122 30.583W
35 56.677N 122 30.583W
35 56.677N 123 29.705W

Please contact my watch relief, LTJG Maegan Schwartz, with any further questions or information. Thank you again for all of your help,
Jessica

LTJG Jessica Snyder
USCG Sector San Francisco
Incident Management Division

I spoke to the duty officer at Customs Late this morning. They have a Cessna Citation in San Diego with targeting radar and a FLIR. The plane with a crew experienced with finding small boats should be in the air now searching between point Morro and San Diego.

Thanks to Robert Yoha of the California Department of Conservation for the heads up on the availability of this important asset.