Desperate search for two men as fishing boat found empty 70 miles off Florida coast

The hunt for 2 missing fishermen identified arsenic 57-year-old Randall Spivey and 33-year-old Brandon Billmaier is underway aft their vessel was recovered without them.

Spivey and Billmaier went sportfishing disconnected the seashore of Fort Meyers, Fla., connected Friday. Billmaier's woman wrote successful a societal media station shared by Semafor White House analogous Shelby Talcott that her hubby and his uncle, Spivey, near aboriginal Friday greeting and were expected to instrumentality successful the afternoon. As of 7:30 p.m. connected Friday, the 2 had not returned and the household had not heard from them.

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Randall Spivey, 57, is 6-foot-1 and was past seen successful khaki pants and a dark-colored shirt.

Billmaier's woman said that astatine astir 11:00 p.m. the U.S. Coast Guard deployed a helicopter, and astatine 1:30 a.m. Saturday the household received a telephone that Spivey and Billmaier's vas was recovered 70 miles disconnected the coast, but the men were not aboard.

"We've gotta find them. Please. Please, delight find them," Tricia Spivey, Randall's wife, said, according to WBBH-TV.  "They're astonishing people. I mean, I, I don't know, I conscionable — I conscionable request him back. He needs to travel backmost to us."

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The vessel that missing fishermen Randall Spivey, 57, and his nephew, Brandon Billmaier, 33, were connected was recovered empty. (U.S. Coast Guard)

The household is hoping that much radical volition beryllium capable to articulation the rescue effort and is asking for those who are consenting and capable to scope out. Spivey and Billmaier's household is asking those who cannot assistance successful the rescue to support the men successful their prayers.

On Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard said it was starring the hunt and asked for anyone with accusation to telephone U.S. Coast Guard Sector St Petersburg astatine 866-881-1392.

Brandon Billmaier, 33, went missing portion sportfishing disconnected the seashore of Florida with his uncle, Randall Spivey.

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Spivey is simply a 6-foot-1 antheral with brownish hairsbreadth and brownish eyes, according to the Lee County Sheriff's Office. He was past seen wearing khaki pants and a dark-colored shirt.

Billmaier is 6-foot-2 and has strawberry hairsbreadth and brownish eyes. The Lee County Sheriff's Office did not picture what the 33-year-old was past seen wearing. 

The Lee County Sheriff's Office directed Fox News Digital to the U.S. Coast Guard for further updates.