On Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard recovered three bodies and debris from a 37-foot racing yacht that vanished during a boat race off of southern California. Officials suspect that the Aegean was struck by a freight ship during a 124-mile race from Newport Beach, California, to Ensenada, Mexico, on Saturday. The race course passed through shipping lanes and the boat was found . “This was almost like it had gone through a blender,” Eric Lamb, a sailor who found the debris, said. The search for a missing fourth sailor was called off on Sunday evening. Although deaths in sailing races are exceedingly rare, five sailors were killed in a yacht race in San Francisco two weeks ago.
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