Search For Missing Fisherman

7:45 p.m.
- Search shutdown. Searchers believe they have found the body of the missing fisherman, Joe Wongsa
- The Mobile County Sheriff's Flotilla located body underwater with side-scan sonar. Divers then retrieved it.
- Daphne Search and Rescue says body found matches description of Wongsa
- Coroner is on sight to make a positive identification
- Body located 1/2 mile South of Interstate 10 around 7:00 p.m.
- Daphne Search and Rescue says none of the men on the wooden crabbing boat were wearing lifejackets.

6:45 p.m.
- Wongsa was one of 3 people on a 24ft wooden crabbing boat
- They were on the Apalachee river when he fell out
- The other two people on the crabbing boat are helping in the search
- The Coast Guard, Alabama Marine Police, Spanish Fort Fire Department and North Baldwin Search and Rescue are also looking for Wongsa

5:40 p.m.
- Rev. Noy Paul of First Baptist Church of Irvington says the victim's name is 35-year-old Joe Wongsa
- Wongsa is the Music Director at the church
- Wongsa's wife called Rev. Paul around 2:30 p.m. to say her husband was missing
- Family members are on the scene

4:24 p.m.
- Rescue crews are searching Mobile Bay for a fisherman who fell off a boat around 4:00 p.m.
- The Mobile County Sheriff's Office Flotilla and Daphne Search and Rescue are launching crews from Meaher State Park on the Causeway in Spanish Fort.
- They're searching an area south of I-10.

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