No answers found in search for Microsoft's Jim Gray
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David Swatland, captain in the U.S. Coast Guard for the San Francisco Bay region, looked puzzled and dismayed by a simple question at the Stanford University symposium Wednesday, "The Search For Jim Gray."
The Coast Guard never recovered any debris or spotted any sign of his bright-red-hulled boat with its black mast and the name "Tenacious" in bold white letters on the side, he said. It had been one of the most intensive searches ever mounted off the San Francisco coast, he added.
What's more, Gray's wife, Donna Carnes, and family, after the search of the ocean's surface ended, quickly mounted a survey of 300 square miles of the seafloor between the Golden Gate and the Farallons, extending out to the most likely places that Gray's boat might have reached. This search also turned up nothing, even though the side scanning sonar was able to draw a map of rocks and sand bars on the ocean's floor.