NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
INCIDENTS
Point Reyes NS
Three Dead, One Missing Following Boat Wreck
On the evening of Friday, April 17th, the Coast Guard began a search for an overdue 21-foot pleasure craft with three men and one woman on board in waters near Point Reyes National Seashore.
The search continued into Saturday, when a floating debris field and grounded vessel matching the description of the missing craft were discovered within the park's boundary in the area of Bird Rock off of Tomales Point. Shortly thereafter, the bodies of a man and woman, later identified as R.H., 60, and D.K., 61, were recovered from the Tomales Point shoreline and nearby waters.
Search efforts were suspended on April 19th. During a follow-up overflight of the area on Wednesday, April 22nd, the body of R.V., 29, was recovered in the area where R.H. and D.K. were earlier found. Additional overflight searches of the area have produced no additional clues; one man remains missing.
This was a large, multi-agency search that included National Park Service rangers, United States Coast Guard naval and aviation assets, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office helicopter, the Marin County Fire Department Water Rescue Team, the Marin County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue Team, California State Park rangers, and Tomales and Bodega Bay Volunteer Fire Departments. Media interest was high.
[David Schifsky, Chief Ranger]
OTHER NEWS
The following stories are among those in today's webpage editions of InsideNPS (available to NPS employees only) and the Morning Report (available to all readers):
Arlington House - Arlington House commemorated the fall of the Confederate capital of Richmond and the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House by conducting special events on April 4th and 9th.
Office of Communications - Park websites on NPS.gov from A (Acadia) to Z (Zion) are now mobile-friendly. People using phones and tablets to visit park websites now have a user-friendly experience to enhance their virtual visits.
Independence NHP - There's a new way to check the air quality in Philadelphia. It comes in the form of an innovative park bench that the Environmental Protection Agency has placed in the park.
Workplace Enrichment - The annual employee viewpoint survey will be conducted over a six-week period this spring. Look for the link to the survey in your email this week.
Craters of the Moon NM&P - John Apel, the park's chief of resource management, will retire on May 2nd, almost 39 years to the day after starting a career with the National Park Service.
Southeast Region - Doyle Sapp has been selected as superintendent of Guilford Courthouse National Military Park. He is currently the superintendent of Horseshoe Bend National Military Park.
To see the full text of these stories, readers should go to one or the other of the following sites:
NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index
Non-NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/" http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/
The Morning Report is produced by the Office of Communications with the support of the Office of the Associate Director for Information Resources. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov).
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