{"id":73940,"date":"2019-08-13T19:55:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T01:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-man-sailing-navajo-lake-goes-missing\/"},"modified":"2019-08-14T01:55:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T01:55:30","slug":"durango-man-sailing-navajo-lake-goes-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-man-sailing-navajo-lake-goes-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango man sailing Navajo Lake goes missing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6ab99de4-5858-4388-a91c-3ab64d799806&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"653\" alt=\"A Durango man is missing a week after his sailboat was found unoccupied on the New Mexico side of Navajo Lake.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A Durango man is missing a week after his sailboat was found unoccupied on the New Mexico side of Navajo Lake.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of New Mexico State Parks<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A 78-year-old Durango man has been missing for almost a week after possibly having gone overboard while sailing at Navajo Lake State Park.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Smith, the park superintendent on the New Mexico side of the lake, said a sailboat was found unoccupied around 7 p.m. Aug. 7, which was later identified to be owned by John Raymen Porter.<\/p>\n<p>Search and rescue crews were immediately dispatched, Smith said, searching both from the ground and the air, with no success in finding Porter.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told authorities that Porter was spotted on his sailboat shortly before 7 p.m., leading authorities to believe he went overboard. He was alone on the sailboat and likely not wearing a life jacket, Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Search efforts continued throughout the week, with the New Mexico State Police even bringing in its dive team. As of 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Porter was listed as a missing person, Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have his body or him alive to rule anything out at this point,\u201d he said. Foul play is not suspected.<\/p>\n<p>Search operations have been scaled down in recent days, but Smith said crews will actively look for Porter until he is found.<\/p>\n<p>Marsha Porter-Norton posted on social media that the man missing is not her father, whose name is also John Porter.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>operations scaled down a week after boat found unoccupied<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1152,28,1342,138],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-73940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-emergency-incident","tag-headlines","tag-navajo-lake-state-park","tag-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73940"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}