Coast Guard searching for man who fell off boat near Pensacola

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Rescue crews searched Sunday for a missing Alabama man who was last seen boating with his family along an inland waterway. <br> <br> A U.S. Coast Guard search and rescue boat and helicopter were trying to find 36-year-old Ken Ketterman, who was last seen aboard the rear of a rented 19-foot Carolina Skiff on Sunday morning near the Perdido Pass Bridge. <br> <br> Ketterman, of Chicksaw, Ala., was out for a ride with his wife and young son, said Chad Saylor, a Coast Guard spokesman. <br> <br> The Coast Guard suspended its search at 7 p.m. Sunday and was set to resume early Monday, Saylor said. <br> <br> Saylor said that when Beth Ketterman noticed her husband missing, she flagged down a man on a nearby charter boat. The man, a retired Alabama Marine Police officer, called police. <br> <br> Authorities were attempting to learn more about the circumstances leading up to Beth Ketterman&#39;s discovery that her husband was missing. Saylor said the man had given his wife his life jacket and had moved to the rear of the boat without a jacket. There were no reports of him yelling or his wife seeing him fall from the boat, he said. <br> <br> &#34;There&#39;s a lot of question marks right now,&#34; Saylor said. <br> <br> Divers searched the waters near the bridge and local rescue crews dragged the water. <br> <br> <br>

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