Alcatraz boat crash victim ID’d in San Francisco Bay incident

The person who died when a boat sunk near Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay Tuesday has been identified.

Clifford Joseph Boisa, 79 of Sutter County, died when the boat carrying 20 passengers capsized near the former prison.

Three of the passengers still remain missing while the rest were rescued.

Clifford Joseph Boisa, 79 of Sutter County, died when the boat carrying 20 passengers capsized. Facebook/Jackie Knedel Boisa

Three people remain missing. ABC

The vessel was roughly 600 yards off Alcatraz between the infamous island and the Golden Gate Bridge when it started sinking beneath the frigid waters of the bay Tuesday afternoon.

The US Coast Guard initially classified the emergency as a “vessel fire” and said 19 people were aboard when the sinking began. But the San Francisco Fire Department said during a 5 p.m. news conference that crews found no evidence a fire had occurred.

Those aboard appeared to have been family members who were participating in some kind of memorial according to NBC Bay Area.

Fire officials said the boat was a three-level pontoon vessel that was already mostly underwater when rescuers arrived, with only the top deck still visible above the surface.

When crews arrived some people were in the water, some were on the boat. Officials said the boat launched somewhere near the St. Francis Yacht club.

Most of the injuries were caused by the violent plunge into the bay, according to the fire department.

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