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Woman's body ID'd as missing boater

12:11 PM CDT on Monday, June 18, 2007

From 11 News staff reports

Crews will continue searching Monday.

The body of missing boater Martha Harris was pulled from the waters of the Galveston Bay Sunday night after an extensive search.

Identification was made via a driver’s license found on the body.

Harris was found after a passerby spotted her body floating in the water about two miles out of Seabrook.

Texas EquuSearch

Martha and Bill Harris

Harris and her husband, Bill, were on their 22-foot Triton boat near Seabrook when they vanished.

People picnicking on the banks of Red Bluff Beach reported seeing the boat going in circles around 1 p.m., but no one was on board.

The couple put their boat in the water Sunday morning at the Kemah Bridge. Texas EquuSearch, the Seabrook Police and the Coast Guard were all searching for the couple.

Texas EquuSearch said the Harris family normally carried five life jackets on their boat, and two were missing when the boat was found.

Bill and Martha Harris are the parents of a member of Texas EquuSearch.

The search for Bill Harris will continue Monday.

"We just want to be in the area. Don't want to take a chance on missing him. It's just another one of those tragedies that happened unfortunately on Father's Day," EquuSearch's Tim Miller said.

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