Updated: Woman Missing After 50-Foot Boat Sinks Off Fishers Island

6:30 p.m.: The United States Coast Guard and several area fire departments are continuing to search for a woman off of Fishers Island after a 50-foot pleasure boat overturned.

According to Lt. Jeff Janaro of the U.S.C.G., between 2:30 and 3 p.m. the privately-owned boat had 10 people and a dog on board when it sturck rocks and overturned in 42 feet of water trapping its passengers underneath.

The Westerly Sun is reporting the U.S.C.G. believes the boat hit Pulpit Rock, two miles south of Noank and a quarter mile north of Clay Point on Fishers Island.

The USCG,  , , and L&M Medics responded to the scene. Nine people were rescued and taken by boat to the Noank Village Shipyard where ambulances waited. Janaro said the nine passengers are in good health, but a female remains unaccounted for.

The Coast Guard and several local fire departments including a four-person dive team from Westerly is searching the waters off of Fishers Island for the missing female who was part of group of people trapped when a boat overturned north of Fishers Island around 3 p.m.

According to The Westerly Sun the New York State Police will be in charge of the investigation.

5:47: p.m.: The United States Coast Guard and several area fire departments are searching for a woman off of Fishers Island after a 50-foot pleasure boat struck rocks and sunk in 42 feet of water.

According to Lt. Jeff Janaro of the USCG, between 2:30 and 3 p.m. the privately-owned boat had 10 people and a dog on board when it sunk, with all but one passenger saved by Coast Guard officials and other individuals in the area.

Janaro said a female remains unaccounted for and divers are on scene, and the other nine passengers are reportedly in good health after being rescued.

Janaro said he did not have a precise location, though the incident occurred north of the island, closer to the western side.

The Coast Guard and several local fire departments including a four-person dive team from Westerly is searching the waters off of Fishers Island for the missing female who was part of group of people trapped when a boat overturned north of Fishers Island around 3 p.m.

5: 03 p.m.: The person who remains missing is an unidentified female. The Coast Guard and several local fire departments including a four-person dive team from Westerly is searching the waters off of Fishers Island for the missing female who was part of group of people trapped when a boat overturned north of Fishers Island around 3 p.m.

4:37 p.m.: The Coast Guard and several local fire departments are actively searching the waters off of Fishers Island for at least person after a boat overturned Sunday afternoon.

At around 3 p.m. on Sunday a boat overturned just north of Fishers Island trapping ten people and one dog under the boat. Emergency personnel from the Coast Guard, , , and L&M Medics responded to the scene. By 3:30 p.m. nine people had been rescued and taken by boat to the Noank Shipyard where ambulances were standing by.

As of 4:30 p.m., one person was still unaccounted and the Westerly Dive Team was en route to the scene.

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