Second USS NASSAU Sailor Missing
Navy Newsstand
Story Number: NNS030527-04
Release Date: 5/27/2003 2:49:00 PM
From U.S. 2nd Fleet Public Affairs
NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- A search and rescue effort was conducted for a Sailor assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Nassau (LHA 4), who was discovered missing in the late morning May 25 during a routine muster.
When he failed to report, his co-workers started to immediately investigate his whereabouts. After this investigation turned up nothing, the ship went to "general quarters" and initiated a search and rescue effort.
Nassau launched helicopters in support of the search, and a U.S. Coast Guard C-130 Search and Rescue aircraft joined the search. Additionally, the ship reversed its course and retraced its previous path.
Multiple thorough searches within the ship by crew members have discovered nothing.
The Sailor is Petty Officer First Class Shaun Dale of Newport News, Va.
The cause of the accident is under investigation.
Another Sailor from the ship had fallen overboard May 23 and after an extensive search was deemed lost at sea.
The Nassau is homeported in Norfolk, Va.
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