The United States Coast Guard is searching for five missing people after a boat capsized near St. Lucie Inlet in Florida on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Four individuals were rescued from the scene, while another person was found deceased, the Coast Guard said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the passengers said that the boat capsized on Friday, according to the Coast Guard’s\u00a0statement on X<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n As of Sunday afternoon, the officials reported that crews were still searching for the overturned vessel’s missing passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Coast Guard also stated in its post that the search began after a “good Samaritan reported the incident,” which took place some 29 miles off the coast of St. Lucie Inlet in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Martin County Fire Rescue shared in a post on X<\/a> that the Coast Guard was on the scene just before 10 a.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “5 occupants were located, 1 of whom was deceased. 4 were transported for further evaluation,” Martin County Fire Rescue wrote. “Our units received those four patients via helicopter at the Stuart Airport.”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n In another post, Martin County Fire Rescue said that one of the individuals had “serious injuries” while the other three presented non-life-threatening injuries, and they were all brought to Cleveland Clinic’s Martin South Hospital in Martin County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “A search continues for another five people reported missing,” the Coast Guard said on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n