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Family at a Loss in Disappearance of SoCal Boating Couple
May 14, 2008, 8:49 PM PDT
OCEANSIDE -- Instead of celebrating his 28th birthday, family members wait for word on the fate of Josh Hartman and his fiancee who disappeared from their fishing boat last week.Hartman and Mexican native, Ana Martin, left Oceanside Harbor Thursday morning in their 32-foot fishing boat. The pair was last heard from that afternoon when Hartman called a friend around 3:30 to say he was not going to be back on time because the fishing was going so well. The last confirmed sighting of the pair was made around noon by another fisherman in the popular fishing area about 6 miles from shore. They also had been in radio contact sporadically throughout the early afternoon with another boat. Family members reported them missing Thursday night after their boat Pelican failed to return and calls to their cell phones went unanswered. On Friday, their boat washed ashore near Rosarito, a Mexican resort town about 20 miles south of the border. The Mexican Navy, which searched the area off Baja California after the boat was found, said there was no damage to the boat and no obvious signs of foul play. Investigators did find both Hartman and Martin's cell phones on board as well as his wallet and her purse. The boat is still in the custody of the Mexican authorities. When it is returned, the Coast Guard hopes to use the boat's GPS chart-plotter to trace its path. The Coast Guard says it could resume an active search for the couple, if new information about their whereabouts surfaces. Copyright © 2008, KTLA
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