SAVANNAH, Ga. – The body of a man who went missing during a boating trip off the Georgia coast was recovered Tuesday while crews continued searching for his wife.
A Georgia Department of Natural Resources search boat found the body of 59-year-old Raymond Hutchins near the mouth of the Satilla River, south of Brunswick, late Tuesday morning, said Petty Officer 1st Class Stephen Lehmann, a Coast Guard spokesman.
The Coast Guard and other agencies began looking for Hutchins and his wife, 61-year-old Laura Hutchins, Monday morning after their son reported them missing.
The couple’s son told authorities his parents had launched their pontoon boat Sunday near their home in coastal Camden County and had called him from the water that afternoon.
“The last contact was a phone call saying that they were stuck on a sandbar and they were just hanging out there until the tide came in,” said Capt. Bob Lynn, a DNR law enforcement supervisor in Brunswick.