Three men rescued after boat capsizes

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued three men, all unharmed, from a fishing vessel June 25 after their own vessel, a 44-foot pleasure boat named Bullish Reward, took on water and capsized off Cape Romano.

Bruce Balurd, 46, Darrell Balurd, 75, and Mark Goebal, 49, evacuated their vessel onto a life raft where passengers aboard the fishing vessel Angelina picked them up until the Coast Guard arrived.

Spokespeople for the Coast Guard did not know the men's hometowns.

According to a press release, the Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater sent a C-130 search plane to look for the vessel, whose crew contacted the Angelina to request that it recover the men. After being picked up from the fishing vessel, the rescue boat transported them to the Coast Guard Station in Fort Myers Beach.

In March 2005, a Golden Gate woman died about 30 miles off Marco Island in a boating mishap that caused her and her husband to cling to debris for more than 36 hours before Coast Guard officials found them.

After putting in more than 29 flight hours, rescuers found that Maria Perez, 35, was dead and her husband, Jose Delgado, 41, was suffering from hypothermia.

Their boat was nowhere in sight. Investigators were unable to determine the cause of the accident, though Delgado said the boat cracked in the back and began taking on water the morning of the accident.

The following month in April, the Marco Civil Air Patrol responded to a boater who was taking on water about 15 miles south of Everglades City. When they made contact, the man was unharmed. But his 42-foot vessel was submerged in about two feet of water.