Officials say a 17-year-old was pulled from the water around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, but four were still missing as the United States Coast Guard searched the waters of Mobile Bay after sailing vessels participating in a Dauphin Island sailing regatta capsized during a storm. 
 
 Major Scott Bannon, chief enforcement officer of the Alabama Marine Police Division, said boat and aircraft searched throughout the night. Maj. Bannon said this was still a search and rescue mission. 
 
 "Conditions are survivable, and we have not given up hope that there are survivors," he said. 
 
 The Coast Guard Sector Mobile received the report at approximately 4:30 p.m. Saturday that the regatta was struck by severe weather causing multiple vessels to capsize and leaving multiple people on the water. The United States Coast Guard said 200 people were on 119 boats during the 57th annual iteration of the Dauphin Island Race. 
 
 Dauphin Island Mayor Jeff Collier said one person died, but didn't offer any more information. 
 
 
 
 "It's been a very tragic day," said Michael Smith with the Buccaneer Yacht Club. "We've had a lot of breakage, missing people, fatalities." 
 
 
 
 Smith said the storm rolled in unexpectedly and suddenly and the winds were well over 60 knots. 
 
 
 
 "We got boats under the bridge that are up against the bridge. We've got boats on the bottom. We've got people missing. We've got confirmed… unfortunately not coming home,” he said. 
 
 
 
 Susan Kangal, who was in one of the boats on the water said it was the worst storm that she has seen, short of a hurricane. 
 
 
 
 "We were probably an inch from capsizing; everybody was ready to jump. I didn't have a life jacket on – I grabbed the horseshoe and put it around my neck and just held on," said Kangal. 
 
 
 
 It was "the closest to death I have ever come" she said. 
 
 
 
 FOX10 News is continuing to follow this story and will have more as it becomes available. 

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 2 Dead, 5 Missing After Sudden Squall Hits Alabama Sailing Regatta 
 
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 Updated at 1:20 p.m. ET 
 
 At least two people are dead and five others missing after a powerful storm swept through a race regatta in Alabama's Mobile Bay, capsizing sailboats. 
 
 Ideal race conditions suddenly turned Saturday afternoon, when winds quickly went from 15 knots to 50 knots, generating waves as high as 10 feet along the 18-mile course. 
 
 One body was plucked from the water Saturday night and another today as a Coast Guard search continued for five sailors still unaccounted for, The Associated Press quoted Petty Officer Carlos Vega as saying. 
 
 Earlier reports had said that four people were missing. 
 
 "Apparently there were a number of vessels that became distressed, either capsized or what have you. They were scattered anywhere from Dauphin Island Bridge all the way out into Mobile Bay and across to Fort Morgan. It was a wide area," Dauphin Island Mayor Jeff Collier told AL.com. 
 
 Reuters says that only some of the boats that capsized were part of the Dauphin Island regatta in Mobile Bay, which Collier said involved more than 100 sailboats and as many as 200 sailors. 
 
 "It's been a very tragic day," Michael Smith, with the Buccaneer yacht club, told WSFA-TV. "We've had a lot of breakage, missing people, fatalities." 
 
 Survivors Randy Rutledge and Rhonda Morgan Gilreath, speaking to AL.com, recounted how they were just 15 minutes from the finish line at Dauphin Island Bridge when their 23-foot sailboat was swamped by the steep waves. 
 
 "It was just unbelievable how high the waves were," Gilreath said. "They were just bashing you from every side."
– Two people are dead and Coast Guard crews are continuing their search this morning for at least five people missing in the water after a sudden and powerful storm capsized several sailboats participating in a regatta near Mobile Bay, Ala. The storm rolled through the area about 4pm yesterday and NPR reports that winds quickly went from 15 knots to 50. One body was found yesterday and another this morning. "Apparently there were a number of vessels that became distressed, either capsized or what have you," Dauphin Island Mayor Jeff Collier told Al.com. "They were scattered anywhere from Dauphin Island Bridge all the way out into Mobile Bay and across to Fort Morgan. It was a wide area." More than 100 sailboats and as many as 200 people were participating in the Dauphin Island regatta in Mobile Bay. "It's been a very tragic day," Michael Smith, with the Buccaneer yacht club, told WSFA-TV. "We've had a lot of breakage, missing people, fatalities." Susan Kangal, who was on a boat, told WSFA it was the worst storm that she has seen. "We were probably an inch from capsizing; everybody was ready to jump. I didn't have a life jacket on," she said. The boats were part of the 57th iteration of the race. Officials say about 40 people were rescued from the bay yesterday; one man was rescued from the water by the Coast Guard around 9pm, Petty officer Carlos Vega said.