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Philip Merrill, owner of The Capital, missing while sailing on the bayPublished 06/11/06
Rescue crews continued searching the Chesapeake Bay Sunday afternoon for Capital-Gazette Publisher and former diplomat Philip Merrill after his 41-foot sailboat was found drifting off Breezy Point in Calvert County yesterday. The Coast Guard and Maryland Natural Resources Police were using boats, helicopters and an airplane to comb a 100-square-mile area of the bay. "Right now we plan to search into the evening and then re-evaluate," Coast Guard Lt. Timothy Balunis said about 4:30 p.m. He said the Coast Guard estimates survival time, given Mr. Merrill's age and the temperature of the water, to be about 28 hours....
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