One person has died and three others are missing after a pontoon boat capsized around 600 yards from Alcatraz Island on Tuesday.
A report of a vessel in distress came in at 15:37 local time (22:37 GMT), San Francisco Fire Department chief Dean Crispen said.
A marine unit first on the scene witnessed a man in the water “in severe distress” and initiated CPR, Crispen said. He was declared deceased when brought to shore.
He said 20 adults, mostly family members, were on the three-deck pontoon boat, a 50ft (15m) cabin cruiser called Volare, and they were “engaging in some kind of memorial service”.
Authorities said a search and rescue operation by the San Francisco Fire Department and the US Coast Guard would continue throughout the evening.
Three people on the boat were injured and taken to a local hospital, where they were in a stable condition, Crispen told a news conference.
The man who died was 79-year-old Clifford Joseph Boisa, said the San Francisco medical examiner’ office.
Boisa was a resident of Sutter County, which is around a two-hour drive north-west of San Francisco.
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