Captain of Newport-based crab boat that sank details what happened Sunday as Coast Guard calls off search for missing man

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The Coast Guard’s search for a man lost at sea after Newport-based fishing vessel Das Bug capsized Sunday afternoon ended without success Monday.

“We did first-light search patterns with a helicopter and we’ve had no results so far,” petty officer boatswain mate second class Derek Knight said Monday morning.

Knight piloted one of the two 47-foot rescue boats stationed at Coast Guard Station Yaquina Bay dispatched after the 40-foot Das Bug capsized and sank about 4 p.m. Sunday. Two Coast Guard helicopters from North Bend joined in the search Sunday and one continued to look early Monday until the search was suspended at 10:15 a.m.

The Coast Guard will now begin a marine casualty investigat