Russell used his cell phone instead to call the Coast Guard while he was still in range. When he was patched through to the Kodiak duty officer and inquired whether they had heard from Fishing Fever, the Coastie told him no, he had not. Russell asked him to keep a watch on the general area where he thought Johnathan might be found. The Coastie asked him why he thought that Johnathan might be missing and Russell told him that Johnathan was his friend and he was missing, or overdue anyway. The bit about being late into harbor did not seem to move the Coast Guardsman, who recorded the information dutifully, Russell was sure, but they both knew that the Coast Guard could do nothing until daylight, if even then. Normally they did not leap into action without definitive information that a boat was lost or capsized and dead in the water, and they had a general fix. Russell had nothing of that sort to give him. He asked if Russell knew whether Fishing Fever was carrying an EPIRB emergency beacon.
