UPDATED: Search Continues for Two Missing Sonoma County Men

The U.S. Coast Guard said officials will continue to search Monday for signs of a charter fishing boat that capsized a week ago near Baja, Mexico. A U.S. Coast Guard C-130 Hercules aircrew has completed their sixth day of searching today in a 990 square-mile area in the Sea of Cortez near Isla San Luis, Mexico.

No sign of the seven people still missing from the boat were found. The boat, operated by the fishing excursion company Baja Sportfishing Inc., sank at 2:30 a.m. on July 3, according to the Coast Guard. More than 40 people were on board including crew members and a group of fishermen from various Bay Area cities who were on a fishing trip together.

Russ Bautista of Penngrove and Shawn Chaddock of Petaluma were still missing seven days after the fishing boat they were on board capsized, the Press Democrat reported yesterday.

A "Sacramento-based long-range search and rescue plane was requested by the Mexican Navy, which is coordinating the search. Another search is scheduled for today," the article stated.

The Mexican Navy continues to search the open water, which officials say is about 80 degrees this time of year, making survival a possibility. Mexican officials are also searching area coastlines. 

"The Coast Guard has covered approximately 3,200 square miles of ocean and land since it joined the search effort," the article concluded.