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George Taft, 65, and Ian Catterson, 73, drowned in February last year when MV Biter capsized while assisting the Hebridean Princess cruise ship.

The deputies are also searching for one other boater, as the Phommathep boat was the first of two that capsized within 48 hours in Bodega Bay, where ocean conditions continued to become more dangerous.

Two people have been confirmed dead and several more are missing after two separate boats capsized in the past few days off Northern California’s Bodega Bay amid increasingly dangerous winds.

Several parents told us that they had heard about a four-month-old Kurdish boy who had drowned the previous night after the boat he was travelling in capsized during an attempted Channel crossing.

He said his father fled Vietnam after the 1975 fall of Saigon, but his boat capsized, killing his wife and children.