KRASOWSKIS, Andre

KRASOWSKIS, Andre (1967-1989)[#546-81-6987], born in California, he was drowned from a skiff he was rowing off Long Point, Santa Catalina Island on March 4, 1989. He was 21 years old.

In the News~

March 3, 1989 [LAT]: “Coast Guard cutters and helicopters searched today for a man whose dinghy was swept out to sea in heavy weather off Santa Catalina Island. Andre Krasowskis, 21, was last seen at 4:30 p.m. Thursday when he rowed from the island's Long Point, where he is employed at the YMCA's Camp Fox, a Coast Guard spokesman said.”

March 4, 1989 [LAT]: “Parents Wait Anxiously for Word on Son, 21, Missing Off Catalina. Andre Krasowskis is a fun-loving guy who likes a practical joke. That's what his mother decided to think about Friday, trying to keep her hopes up, trying to be brave. Krasowskis, a 21-year-old worker at the YMCA's Camp Fox on Santa Catalina Island, rowed a dinghy offshore to perform a routine chore Thursday afternoon and did not return, apparently blown to sea by gusting winds. His disappearance touched off a search by land, sea and air that proceeded through Friday without success. "Maybe he took the boat to see a girl at another camp. I wouldn't put it past him," Krasowskis' mother, Lydia Krasowskis, said with a half-hearted laugh in a telephone interview from her bakery in Avalon. "He's probably out there somewhere and can't wait to come back and tell us about his adventure. . . . Maybe he'll walk in here and say it as all a joke. . . . I wish. I wish”.”