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A search effort is ongoing by air and sea to find four boaters who disappeared Saturday on the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Sarasota County.
Authorities were told the men left around 8 a.m. Saturday from Venice and were expected to return in the evening, according to the Venice Police Department. Crews are searching the Gulf from Stump Pass to Longboat Pass.
The boaters are identified as Angel Hernandez Munoz, 38, of North Port; Ruben Mora Sr., 54, of Port Charlotte; Julio Cesar Cordero Briones, 37, of North Port; and Vargas Parra, 35, of North Port, police said. Their boat is a 1995, 23-foot white SportCraft with registration No. FL9937HC.
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