Missing Boater Found Injured on Island Beach
A 63-year-old Hawthorne man missing on a solitary fishing trip was found injured and semi-coherent on a remote, rocky Santa Barbara Island beach Friday afternoon after two days and nights of an intense air and sea search.
Robert Pullen Sr., who set out from Marina del Rey Wednesday morning and failed to return as scheduled that evening, was discovered lying on a life jacket near the debris of his 18-foot power boat, the Jeanie, by two Channel Islands National Park rangers.
The rangers, Patrick Given and Donald Unser, were flown to the island after being alerted by the Coast Guard and were scanning the shoreline from a small boat when they spotted the wreckage at the base of a 200-foot cliff at Webster Point on the western side of the island, park spokesman Nick Whelan said.
Pullen was hoisted in a litter to a hovering Coast Guard helicopter and was flown to Torrance Memorial Hospital late Friday afternoon.
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