WATCH: Coast Guard Rescues 3 Off Bodega Bay; 4th Person Missing

SONOMA COUNTY, CA — Three people were rescued after their boat capsized Saturday in the Pacific Ocean north of Bodega Bay but after searching overnight for a fourth person, crews with the U.S. Coast Guard suspended their search Sunday morning for the missing man, officials said.

"The decision to suspend a search is extremely difficult and our thoughts are with the missing man and his family at this time," said Capt. Marie Byrd, commander of the U.S. Coast Guard San Francisco Sector.

Coast Guard watchstanders were alerted at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, of a distress signal generated by an emergency position-indicating radio beacon aboard the 54-foot Miss Hailee. The commercial fishing boat had capsized around 30 miles northwest of Bodega Bay, according to public affairs officials with U.S. Coast Guard 11th District Pacific Southwest.

Receiving no response after multiple callouts to the boat via radio, Coast Guard officials dispatched a San Francisco-based MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew, a Sacramento-based C-27 Spartan aircraft crew and a 47-foot Bodega-based motor lifeboat crew.

The Dolphin crew arrived on scene at 6:50 p.m. Saturday and located three people — two men and a woman — in the water. The trio was hoisted up and onto the helicopter, where they informed Coast Guard crews a fourth person was in their party but was missing.

The Spartan aircrew, the Bodega Bay lifeboat crew and good Samaritans aboard the tug, Cochise, remained on scene searching for the missing man who reportedly was wearing a life jacket.

After searching a 368-square-mile area over the course of 16 hours, Coast Guard crews suspended their search Sunday morning.