The State - News from Sept. 8, 1988
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The Coast Guard has suspended a search for two crewmen who went overboard into chilly San Francisco Bay from an inbound Liberian-flag bulk freighter. The victims went into the bay north of Angel Island in a swift ebb tide sweeping toward the Golden Gate Bridge and the Pacific. With the water temperature in the mid-50s, “hypothermia (body cooling) would set in about 20 minutes to a half-hour after they went into the water,” said Coast Guard spokesman Dennis Hall.
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